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Just a century ago, the global population had not even reached two billion, a mere fraction of today’s nearly 8 billion inhabitants. Have you ever wondered where you stand amidst this exponential growth?
UN Commission on Population and Development We’re hosting an official side event for the UN Commission on Population and Development, fifty-nineth session. This year’s theme is “Population, technology and research in the context of sustainable development.”
Demographic, health, and geospatial environmental research has stalled due to devastating funding cuts. As a result, there is a deficit of current, high-quality data, thwarting efforts to address pressing sustainable development challenges, all of which are exacerbated by population growth.
Filling knowledge gaps among policymakers and journalists is crucial to building support for funding demographic and contraceptive research and technological developments. Education on demographic data, trends, and dynamics, and on barriers to contraceptive use, is imperative to achieve progress on these issues, which are intimately intertwined with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Author, former journalist, and current Population Connection board member Robert Engelman will explore this topic during an interactive discussion.
Presentation with John SeagerIt’s been 10 years since our co-publication, The Good Crisis: How Population Stabilization Can Foster a Healthy U.S. Economy. A decade later, we’re still making the same argument: lower fertility rates are good for the health and well-being of people and the planet.
Join Population Connection President and CEO, John Seager, as he unpacks how the demographic changes now underway represent an extraordinary opportunity for us to focus on creating a greater, rather than larger, society. Lower fertility rates can help solve some of our most intractable problems, avert some of the worst climate catastrophes, and create opportunities for those who are often left out of our economy.
During the event, John will unpack the challenge of The Good Crisis—keeping our aging population healthy, productive, and prepared for today’s technologically-focused jobs. At the same time, today’s youth must be prepared for productive futures through education, skills training, and delayed parenthood enabled by improved family planning services.
Contact the Membership Relations Team at engage@popconnect.org to request a hard copy of The Good Crisis, while supplies last!
Robert Engelman, MS
Senior Fellow, Population Institute
John Seager
President and CEO
Population Connection magazine is our quarterly publication, distributed to our network of 40,000 supporters, every member of Congress, and about 3,000 public and university libraries.
Our members and subscribers have been requesting for several months that we dedicate an issue of Population Connection magazine to the role of religion in people’s family planning and childbearing decisions. This edition features an article by Kirsten Stade that explores the nuanced relationship religious followers have (at the population level) with their respective religions’ texts and leaders when it comes to official pronouncements on birth control and family formation.
Read the March IssueOur team monitors news coverage closely and responds swiftly with op-eds, letters to the editor, and press statements to make our voice heard and correct any inaccuracies. Doing so ensures that population perspectives aren’t omitted from discussions on sustainable solutions and global challenges.
We encourage all our members and supporters to make their voices heard! Read our responses to population related headlines and explore our media guide for advice on how to send in your own letter to the editor!
Our Responses to Media Headlines
