11:01:05 From Noelle G to Everyone: Noelle from California 11:01:06 From Marian Starkey to Everyone: I’m in Falmouth, Maine! 11:01:08 From Claire Y to Everyone: Claire calling in from DC! 11:01:08 From Trinity S to Everyone: Trinity S from Bangalore, India 11:01:09 From Greg Z to Everyone: Greg Z, Louisville KY 11:01:11 From Cathy K to Everyone: Cathy K, Hocking Hills Ohio 11:01:12 From Rose S to Everyone: Rose from KY 11:01:14 From James T to Everyone: James from Dallas, TX 11:01:15 From Elaine G to Everyone: Elaine, Modesto CAlif., long time PETNetter. 11:01:16 From Dane K to Everyone: Hi! Dane here from St. Louis 11:01:21 From DAVID C to Everyone: DAVID, CA 11:01:22 From Jeremy B to Everyone: Jeremy, Indiana 11:01:24 From Muriel R to Everyone: Muriel from Boston 11:01:24 From William S to Everyone: Kirk from Lawrence, KS 11:01:31 From Marian H to Everyone: Marian in Pittsburgh 11:01:32 From Joan P to Everyone: Joan in St. Paul, Minnesota 11:01:34 From Lila G to Everyone: Lila, Colorado 11:01:42 From Bundy B to Everyone: I’m from Maine 11:01:49 From Larry L to Everyone: Larry, Carlsbad, California 11:01:50 From Abby W to Everyone: Abby in Washington DC! 11:01:55 From pat m to Everyone: Pat from CT 11:01:57 From Lutfiyah . to Everyone: Lutfiyah. in Maryland 11:02:17 From Pam Wasserman to Everyone: Pam in DC 11:02:19 From Gwendolyn E to Everyone: Gwen from Magnolia DE 11:02:23 From Nicole Martin to Everyone: Nicole from San Diego 11:02:32 From Katherine S to Everyone: Kathy, Nyack, NY 11:02:47 From Arokia C to Everyone: Arokia from TNTDS , INDIA. 11:02:52 From Ron M to Everyone: Ron from Fresno, California 11:03:11 From tom c to Everyone: Tom - Hartford CT 11:03:13 From John T to Everyone: John from Rockville, Maryland 11:03:59 From Dane K to Everyone: Marian, You are doing an amazing job on the Population Connection magazine. Thank you!!!! 11:05:12 From Florence Blondel to Hosts and panelists: Yes @Dane, it's an amazing production. https://populationconnection.org/magazine/june-2025/ 11:05:22 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: I agree Dane! :) 11:05:27 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Captions are available! To turn on closed captions, locate the "Closed Caption" or "Live Transcript" button in the meeting controls (usually at the bottom of the Zoom window) and click it. If it's not visible, look for a "More" or "..." button, which might be hidden on smaller screens. Then, select "Show Captions" or "Enable Auto-Transcription" to activate the captions. 11:06:15 From Robert P to Hosts and panelists: It is very loud and I can't turn the volume down. 11:07:39 From Robert P to Hosts and panelists: I got the volume turned down. All is good 11:08:06 From Stephanie Wolfe to Robert Pollet, Hosts and panelists: Hi Robert, I'm glad you got it figured out! Thanks for letting me know. 11:09:40 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: If you have questions for our speakers, please drop them in the Q&A box found at the bottom of your screen! šŸ™‚ 11:12:54 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: June issue of our magazine: https://populationconnection.org/magazine/june-2025/ 11:13:27 From Olivia Nater to Everyone: Blog post about the Lake survey: https://populationconnection.org/blog/survey-americans-want-small-families-arent-concerned-about-declining-birth-rates/ 11:17:04 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Population Education for K-12: https://populationeducation.org/ 11:17:25 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Population Studies for Higher Education: https://populationconnection.org/population-education/higher-education/ 11:21:43 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Great overview Marian! šŸ‘šŸ» 11:27:11 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: We've been tracking the latest pronatalist measures here: https://populationconnection.org/learn/pronatalism-in-the-us/ 11:29:18 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Explore our Lake survey webpage, which houses slides, blog post, and banner tables: https://populationconnection.org/learn/2024-fertility-research/ 11:32:06 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Explore the results of our 2025 YouGov survey, with downloadable tables at the bottom!: https://populationconnection.org/blog/survey-americans-population-trends/ 11:33:09 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: If you have questions for Marian or Olivia, please drop them in the Q&A box found at the bottom of your screen! 11:35:23 From Lila Greaves to Everyone: Men read the paper while women cook...... 11:36:30 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: We've been tracking the latest pronatalist measures here: https://populationconnection.org/learn/pronatalism-in-the-us/ 11:40:26 From Eve T to Hosts and panelists: Is not Elon mainly concerned about decline in White babies and the decline in White civilization? 11:41:20 From Katherine S to Everyone: It's curious that this administration is pushing pronatalism while at the same time they are acting on killing off many people on the planet - taking away vaccines, medications, food, denying the changing climate, and doing this in the US, too. 11:41:43 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: WOW! How confusing for young women just starting out to be fed that rhetoric. 11:41:57 From Marian Starkey to Everyone: Sorry, the article was in the New York Times. Here it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/style/trump-maga-women.html 11:43:21 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Katherine, it is very contradicting! 11:43:21 From Noelle G to Everyone: and no support for childcare centers, Headstart, more family leave...no wonder people don't want as many kids 11:45:02 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Yes! Our PopEd Team has a few resources and lesson plans on conceptualizing large numbers: https://populationeducation.org/poped-theme-teaching-big-numbers/ 11:46:10 From Marian S to Everyone: https://populationconnection.org/population-education/k-12-students/ 11:46:48 From Greg Z to Everyone: What articles can you share with us to counter the argument that abortion reduces the population 11:47:17 From Lynn L to Everyone: The idea of overgrazing (what happens if you put ten cows in a one-acre pasture?) connects the population issue with the real issue. But I suppose not if you are raised in a city. 11:49:52 From Ron M to Everyone: Is the demographic prediction that world population will top out at about 10.3 billion then slowly decline influencing people's lack of concern about "the population bomb"? 11:51:00 From Stephanie Wolfe to Cathy K, Hosts and panelists: Hi Cathy, I see your hand is raised. Did you have a question for our speakers? 11:51:56 From Katherine S to Everyone: Is Pop Connection doing any education on over consumption in the US? 11:53:38 From Dane K to Everyone: Given how much "air" is taken up with pronatalism, why not consider putting Population Connections support (stories about their work) behind groups that do great work helping women with their reproductive needs. www.Upstream.com in the US and www.engenderhealth.org in Africa and Asia. 11:55:03 From Lila G to Everyone: Tax the rich and take the cap off the top of donations to soc. sec. If the rich pay on all their income, no problems. 11:55:28 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Hi Dane, great idea! We put support behind incredible organizations working to help empower women and girls around the world through our Global Partners Program: https://populationconnection.org/learn/international-partnerships/ 11:55:49 From Greg Z to Everyone: Social Security can remain solvent if we raise the income level where Social Security is no longer deducted from their income 11:55:59 From Lynn L to Everyone: And besides that, there is essentially no possibility that the biosyjtem will quietly carry on long enough to let us even get to the projected populations. We ar destroying the biosyjtem faster than we are growing. War, pestilence and starvation. 11:56:01 From Noelle G to Everyone: yes, there are tweaks which can be done, it's a matter of politicians stop kicking the Social Security issue down the toad 11:56:04 From Stephanie Wolfe to Everyone: Population and the Economy: https://populationconnection.org/learn/population-economy/ 11:59:18 From John T to Everyone: Really interesting discussion! thanks! 11:59:25 From James T to Everyone: Thank you. Great presentation 11:59:27 From Phil S to Everyone: 🤟