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Population It's Important / Population Topics (ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ: Population Matters) formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust (ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ: the Optimum Population Trust)

Population Matters (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ: Population It's Important / Population Topics) formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ: the Optimum Population Trust) is a registered ਸੰਯੁਕਤ ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹੀ based charity,[1] think tank, and advocacy group expressing "population concern" regarding the impacts of population growth on long term sustainability, quality of life and the natural environment, specifically natural resources, climate change, and biodiversity.

Background

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Population Matters conducts research on climate change, energy requirements, biodiversity, and other environmental factors in relation to population numbers. It campaigns for the stabilisation of the size of our population and its gradual decrease to sustainable levels for both the world and the United Kingdom. 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 family planning 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 imports such as food, it advocates that levels of immigration be brought into balance with emigration.

Population Concern

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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]


Campaigns and initiatives

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Pledge two or fewer

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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]

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Patrons include:

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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."

References

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ਹਵਾਲੇ

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  1. "Charity no.1114109". charitycommission.gov.uk/.
  2. "Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  3. "Population concern". www.populationmatters.org.
  4. "Have a small family". http://populationmatters.org/. Retrieved 7 July 2014. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
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