Madam Speaker,
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich released "The Population Bomb" about the dangers of overpopulation. Since that time population has doubled while the federal government has all but ignored the problem. Studies indicate that the sustainable population of the U.S. is about 200 million persons and the sustainable population of the earth is about 2 billion. Overpopulation makes environmental problems, such as global warming, much worse, and energy policy all but unworkable. Yet, the U.S. does little either domestically or internationally to sponsor family planning.
Will you sponsor legislation to put meaningful resources into family planning at both the national and international levels? In particular, will you put into law revocation of the global gag rule? Will you sponsor legislation to end "abstinence-only" programs, which are recipes for causing unwanted pregnancies, from all federal programs?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation#Current_amount_of_overpopulation)
Comments (2)
Again, the above issue, monitoring, limiting world population growth, is not a funtction of
the U.S. Government! Nor should the American taxpayer pay for such!
World population growth is a national security issue and impacts our ability to control global warming. It is well within the function of the federal government. It is a problem that cannot be solved without the active involvement of national governments, and it is life-threatening.
In addition, the federal government is already affecting population growth through its policies. Thus far, it is making the problem worse instead of better. Simply not making the problem worse through bad public policy would be a step in the right direction.