Population Connection is an organization in the United States, formerly known as Zero Population Growth. They adopted their current name in 2002. Zero Population Growth was originally founded in 1968 by Paul R. Ehrlich, Richard Bowers, and Charles Remington, in the wake of the impact from Ehrlich's best-selling book, The Population Bomb.

Population Connection started educating young people nearly forty years ago with their Population Education program. They also advocate for action to stabilize the world population through voluntary measures, primarily through increased access to reproductive health services and supplies. Their mission statement is as follows:

Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.

Population Connection has 34,000 members who provide the majority of the organization's revenue. The organization's headquarters is in Washington, D.C. Population Connection works on issues concerning overpopulation, the environment, poverty, and reproductive rights, and publishes a quarterly magazine, The Reporter.

Population Connection supporters live nationwide. The organization has six chapters, located in California and Florida.

Double the Money is Population Connection's campaign to increase funding for international family planning to $1 billion. The United States appropriated $545 million for FY2009. Population Connection lobbies to end federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs in the United States.

On May 7, 1994, the group officially abandoned the policy of advocating reduced immigration to the U.S. as a method of limiting population growth. Its newly adopted policy states:

It is Population Connection's view that immigration pressures on the U.S. population are best relieved by addressing factors which compel people to leave their homes and families and emigrate to the United States.[1]

[edit] See also

• Overpopulation

[edit] External links

• Official site

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