Global Population Speak Out, a yearly event started in 2009 by John Feeney and continued this year by the Population Institute, is getting set to kick off next month.
The purpose of this yearly event is to bring discussion of population issues out into the open, and by deliberately increasing exposure of the public to the notion that this can be discussed, dissolving those inhibitions to discussion that stall most actions to stabilize population at a sustainable level.
Click on the title of this blog entry to go to the website for this year's event, read more about it, and make a pledge yourself to some action in February 2010 to bring the issue of population into the forefront of the public's mind.
I have pledged again, and will be monitoring online news sources for stories in which environmental breakdown, species extinction, and global warming are discussed - without the primary cause being addressed (population pressure). I will leave comments on these stories.
I'm also going to continue to monitor comments of any online news stories specifically about population, as an ongoing effort to analyze and understand the psychological reaction the public has to such stories - which is wide-ranging, but always quite extreme. Understanding the various public objections to discussion about population is KEY to overcoming those objections.
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