I guess ZPG doesn't really mean ZPG.
John
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Steve Kurtz wrote:
> Re-post from KZPG (excerpt) by Ed Glaze
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> "We don't see Y6B as a problem, but rather a milestone," said
> Zero Population Growth Director of Communications Tim Cline. The mission
> of
> Y6B is to educate women, provide women with economic opportunities and
> provide women with more reproductive health care.
>
>
> Ed says:
>
> Again ZPG seems to avoid taking a stance on stopping or
> reducing overpopulation. A milestone is thought of by most
> people as an achievement and ZPG states that a population
> of 6 billion is not a problem. Whose side are these guys on?
>
> If one of the leading population organizations implies that
> continued growth is not a problem is it any wonder that our
> government, media, and couples everywhere are unconcerned
> about overpopulation?
>
> ZPG, by failing to take a stance on overpopulation, is undoing
> or at least limiting the impact all its population education
> programs may be having. Numbers are important and yet it
> is not hard to imagine that in about a dozen years ZPG will
> acknowledge yet another milestone -- Y7B.
>
