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Population It's Important / Population Topics (Bahasa Inggris: Population Matters) formerly known as the Optimum Population Charity (Bahasa Inggris: the Optimum Population Trust) is a registered Britania Raya based charity,[1] Wadah pemikir, and Kelompok kepentingan expressing "population concern" regarding the impacts of Pertumbuhan penduduk on long term sustainability, quality of life and the lingkungan hidup, specifically sumber daya alam, perubahan iklim, and keanekaragaman hayati.
Background
Population Matters conducts research on climate change, energy requirements, biodiversity, and other environmental factors in relation to population numbers. It campaigns for the population stabilisation and its gradual decrease to sustainable levels. In 2009, the organisation published a study asserting that contraception was the cheapest way of combating climate change.[2]
The organisation states that its intermediate aims are: improved provision of keluarga berencana and sex education, better education and rights for women, and that couples voluntarily "have two or fewer" children. In regions of high population that are reliant on impor such as food, it advocates that levels of immigration be brought into balance with emigration.
Population Concern
A concept of population concern is presented as being: fundamentally a concern about the balance between human needs and the resources available to meet those needs, now, and for the foreseeable future."[3]
| “ | If the human population of the world continues to increase at its current rate, there will soon be no room for either wild life or wild places…But I believe that sooner or later man will learn to limit his overpopulation. Then he will be much more concerned with optimum rather than maximum, quality rather than quantity, and will recover the need within himself for contact with wilderness and wild nature. Sir Peter Scott – founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature 1909 – 1989 | ” |
Campaigns and initiatives
Pledge two or fewer
The "Population Matters"' "Pledge two or fewer" initiative is a voluntary promise to have "two or fewer" children. It is "the biggest environmental decision you will ever make". Four reasons are cited for choosing to have a smaller family: Gender equity... Quality of life... Quality of parenting... Quality of childhood...[4]
People
Patrons
- Sir David Attenborough, Naturalist, broadcaster and trustee of the Kebun Botani Kew...
- James Lovelock, Scientist and environmentalist known for proposing the Hipotesis Gaia...
History
The Optimum Population Trust was founded in 1991 by David Willey and others. "They were impelled to act by the failure of UK governments to respond to a series of recommendations regarding population growth and sustainability." Their goals were to collect, analyse and disseminate information about the sizes of global and national populations and to link this to a study of carrying capacities and inhabitants’ quality of life in order to support policy decisions.
References
- ^ "Charity no.1114109". charitycommission.gov.uk/.
- ^ "Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/. Hapus pranala luar di parameter
|website=(bantuan) - ^ "Population concern". www.populationmatters.org.
- ^ "Have a small family". http://populationmatters.org/. Diakses tanggal 7 July 2014. Hapus pranala luar di parameter
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External links
news articles
- Letter to New Scientist from David Willey (Subscription only)
- Guardian article: Citizens arrest
- Independent article: Overpopulation is main threat to planet
- Telegraph article: UK unable to sustain population, says study
- New Statesman article: Planet Overload
- Times article: David Attenborough to be patron of Optimum Population Trust
- Times article: Having large families is an 'eco-crime'
- The InterAcademy Panel Statement on Population Growth
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