“Right now, half the world’s population – some 3 billion people – are under the age of 25,” began Laurie Mazur on the “Population, Climate, and Consumption” panel at the Society for Environmental Journalists 20th Annual Conference. “It’s the largest generation ever that’s coming of age, and the choices that those young men and women make about childbearing will determine whether world population…grows to anywhere between 8 and 11 billion by the middle of this century.”
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I just got a note from a high school girl who read about 34 Million Friends of the U.N. Population Fund in Half the Sky. She sent her one dollar. She took a stand. On this World Population Day I ‘d like to thank the hundreds of thousands of Americans and others who have taken part in this grassroots movement. I think the greatest gift which can do the most good for people the planet and peace is to offer a gift of reproductive health and ALL that it entails to the world’s women and their families. When women and girls have education and choices, everything changes for the better.
“Right now, half the world’s population – some 3 billion people – are under the age of 25,” began Laurie Mazur on the “Population, Climate, and Consumption” panel at the Society for Environmental Journalists 20th Annual Conference. “It’s the largest generation ever that’s coming of age, and the choices that those young men and women make about childbearing will determine whether world population…grows to anywhere between 8 and 11 billion by the middle of this century.”
