00:15:01 steven s: steven virginia 00:15:01 Nelson C: Nelson Hyde C, San Francisco, CA 00:15:01 David D: David in Dallas, TX 00:15:04 Rose S: Rose from Louisville, KY 00:15:09 Veronica T: Veronica in Beaverton, OR 00:15:14 Melvine Ouyo: Melvine, MD 00:15:14 Deborah Shum: Deborah Shum, Rockville, MD 00:15:15 Lynn L: Lynn L Santa Fe 00:15:17 Bryce H: Bryce and I live in Falmouth, ME. Happy Earth Day! 00:15:21 Marian Starkey: Marian in Falmouth, Maine 00:15:22 Shannon B: Shannon from Virginia 00:15:24 Tom P: Tom from Salem NH 00:15:29 Linda C: Linda from Ferndale, Washington 00:15:33 Tony B: Tony in Maine 00:15:33 Thomas M: Tom from Roseville, CA 00:15:37 Jennifer Lynaugh: Happy Earth Day everyone! Jenn in San Diego :-) 00:15:43 Pam Wasserman: Pam from DC 00:15:43 Julian P. D: Happy Earth Day from the Sonoran Desert! 00:15:47 Florence Blondel: Florence in CLT, NC 00:15:56 Allen S: Allen from Pennsylvania 00:15:56 Carrie B: Carrie in Connecticut 00:16:09 David D: There'e an echo in your audio 00:16:11 Margaret M: Margaret Massachusetts\ 00:16:24 Hannah Evans: i don’t hear an echo 00:16:26 Jonathan D S: treehugger Dave western new york 00:16:26 Jennifer Lynaugh: 🌎 00:16:27 Florence Blondel: No echo for me though… 00:16:30 Marian Starkey: I don’t hear an echo! 00:16:43 Thomas S: Barb Wire, Texas 00:16:50 steven s: no echo for me 00:16:54 David D: The audio is echoing; can't understand you 00:16:59 E. William Yund: bill from Berkeley 00:17:02 Diane G: Diane from East Bay CA 00:17:11 Shannon B: Echooooooo 00:17:44 Shannon B: Double talk. Terrible 00:17:55 Marian Starkey: I’m not hearing an echo. I wonder if if might be a setting on your ends, David and Shannon 00:18:32 Stephanie Wolfe: Closed captioning is available! To enable captions, click the "CC" icon at the bottom. To turn on closed captions, locate the "Show captions" 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. 00:18:54 Deborah Shum: Clear here. Do you have your microphone on? or are you on a phone for audio? 00:19:20 Stephanie Wolfe: john@popconnect.org 00:20:00 Stephanie Wolfe: Online Copy of "The Good Crisis": https://populationconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Good-Crisis.pdf 00:20:39 Tom P: RIP Paul Ehrlich. An eye-opener for me! 00:22:25 Stephanie Wolfe: Reflecting on Paul Ehrlich’s legacy: https://populationconnection.org/blog/reflecting-on-paul-ehrlichs-legacy/ 00:23:15 Tom P: Wow! Thanks SO much for that online copy of the Good Choice. 00:23:26 Nelson C: Paul and Mathis got it right, they just did not anticipate humanity pawning the dying off on other species first. 00:24:41 Stephanie Wolfe: Sure thing Tom! If anyone wants a hard copy of "The Good Crisis", please reach out! We have a handful of copies available: engage@popconnect.org 00:25:08 Veronica T: My mother and I saw Paul deliver a speech at UCLA. I did one of my college speeches on human overpopulation and I can't believe people still don't see overpopulation as a problem! 00:25:51 Tom P: Yeah, I am for the Hard Copy. Email to the email above? 00:28:02 Tom P: Boo on the Heritage Foundation! Absurd! 00:28:45 Thomas M: I’m with you Veronica. I actually had Paul E. as a teacher in college. Extremely logical and persuasive, and did allow for ways in which his predictions may be altered. Don’t understand why folks don’t see the obvious. 00:30:37 Stephanie Wolfe: @ Tom, yes! Contact engage@popconnect.org to receive a hard copy of the book, "The Good Crisis". 00:41:58 Stephanie Wolfe: Goldman Sachs The Path to 2075 — The Positive Story of Global Aging (Daly/Njie/Allen): https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2025/05/20/2d3fe290-10b1-44be-8d0e-77b8d303928f.html 00:42:56 Lynn L: Excellent. I will share widely. 00:44:01 Stephanie Wolfe: Explore more on our "Population and the Economy" webpage: https://populationconnection.org/learn/population-economy/ 00:47:23 Tom P: Yes, John, I like you, can remember doctors who made house calls in my lifetime. Just a wee bit after the horse and buggie was declining in popularity. 00:51:08 Stephanie Wolfe: Experts: Low fertility may be good for the economy - https://populationconnection.org/blog/experts-low-fertility-may-be-good-for-the-economy/ 00:54:00 Stephanie Wolfe: Read more on our Policy Priorities, and consider getting involved with our Action Fund to help expand access to safe, affordable, and comprehensive reproductive health care worldwide: https://populationconnection.org/act/policy-priorities/ 00:54:01 Dane K: Apologies if this was already addressed… these slides are great. Will they be made available to us? 00:54:25 Veronica T: Ejaculate Responsibly was a good book y'all recommended 00:54:25 Stephanie Wolfe: Hi Dane, yes the slides will be posted and shared after the event! 00:54:54 Dane K: Thanks! 00:55:15 Teresa F: Thank you! They will be utilized with any undergraduates that I have! 00:55:25 Tom P: Comprehensive and excellent presentation John! 00:56:06 Stephanie Wolfe: @Veronica, yes we did! We discussed "Ejaculate Responsibly" during our November 2025 Book Club meeting. https://populationconnection.org/virtual-events/book-club/ 00:58:07 Nelson C: Everything your organization does and every other organization devoted to overpopulation do to combat overpopulation falls into one of these three categories: 1st, you educate by spreading the word about the dangers of overpopulation. 2nd, you lobby to change laws that impede a woman’s choice. 3rd, you supply contraception to those that want to plan their family. The problem with the aforementioned: They are all ultimately dependent on people acting responsibly to be effective. I must ask, what about the irresponsible? You know, the ones whose children fill our prisons and foster care rolls? I would argue it is the children of the irresponsible that are most damaging to society. It seems a little unrealistic to expect the irresponsible to act responsibly. 00:59:52 Stephanie Wolfe: New research by Claudia Goldin extends her work on how, why cultural changes around gender are driving down fertility in U.S., elsewhere: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/rising-birth-rates-no-longer-tied-to-economic-prosperity/ 00:59:54 Veronica T: I agree that this problem has never been properly addressed, Nelson. 01:04:01 Richard R: what software was used in developing the slide pictures? 01:06:20 Stephanie Wolfe: Girls' and Women's Empowerment: https://populationconnection.org/why-population/girls-and-womens-empowerment/ 01:07:15 Jennifer Lynaugh: I remember our member David Starr well, John! Good example. 01:09:25 Teresa F: I can so relate to this issue of older workers. I was aged out at fifty-two. Yet my brain is great, participating in many volunteer areas (including population and the environment). Yet our society does not see me as employable. I might add that genetically I should have an active functioning brain into my eighties, and hopefully my nineties. A brain and education is a terrible thing to waste! (And poverty is not productive.) 01:10:18 Tom P: Now that Dobbs has taken legal abortion away, how do we reverse this over the short and long game? 01:10:21 Marian Starkey: This is the study John’s talking about right now: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/4/48 01:10:55 Carole M: Time to consider all the work that is not in the GDP--family care giving, gardening, etc. If I paint my house it is not counted in the GDP, If I hire to have it done it is. 01:13:17 Stephanie Wolfe: Read more on our Policy Priorities, and consider getting involved with our Action Fund to help expand access to safe, affordable, and comprehensive reproductive health care worldwide: https://populationconnection.org/act/policy-priorities/ 01:14:11 Gary F: Are you saying that population stabilization is sufficient with over 8 B people? From the studies I’ve read, the planet cannot support a population of 8 B people; this is not sustainable! 01:14:21 Veronica T: Thanks to all of you for doing this. Your efforts are appreciated. 01:14:38 Stephanie Wolfe: Learn more about our PopEd Program: https://populationconnection.org/population-education/k-12-students/ 01:14:38 Tom P: Yeah, Teresa older workers get No Respect, as Rodney Dangerfield used to say. Yes, us older folks are very sharp like you. No slight to younger workers but they need to get off their phones and learn more. 01:14:47 John T: This was great! Happy Earth Day! 01:14:49 Stephanie Wolfe: John: john@popconnect.org 01:15:03 Thomas M: Thank you John and all! Yes, happy earth day 01:15:03 Tom P: Well done! 01:15:07 Bryce H: Thank you for the great presentation!