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. Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). ... The Population Bomb (1968) is a book written by Paul R. Ehrlich. ...

According to an ad in the paperback edition of that book: "Zero Population Growth Inc. is an organization which has been formed to bring the crucial issue of over-population to the attention of the general public, and more specifically, to the attention of our legislators (both state and federal): the ultimate goal of ZPG being to form a lobby group to press for legislation to implement far-reaching birth control programs, repeal of archaic legislation that runs counter to these objectives, and to press for allocation of funds for more research into population problems and research for better methods of contraception. In addition, ZPG will press for tax laws that, instead of offering incentives for having more children, will emphasize the need for population control." Jump to: navigation, search Overpopulation indicates a scenario in which the population of a living species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche. ... Jump to: navigation, search Birth control is a regimen of one or more extra actions, devices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant. ... Population control is the practice of curtailing population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. ...

By 1972, membership in ZPG had grown quickly to more than 35,000 members. ZPG has passed into common usage as a concept perhaps prompting ZPG to change their name to Population Connection after 34 years on May 1, 2002. The Population Connection works on issues concerning overpopulation and reproductive rights, and publishes a quarterly magazine, The Reporter. A full-length, science fiction film of this title, Z.P.G., appeared in 1972, referring to an overpopulated, very polluted future Earth, whose world government practices this, executing persons who violate the 30-year ban on procreation. Jump to: navigation, search May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Overpopulation indicates a scenario in which the population of a living species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche. ... Jump to: navigation, search Reproductive rights is a controversial political term to refer to womens rights in areas of sexual reproduction, including the rights to reproduce (such as forced sterilization) as well as rights not to reproduce, (such as birth control, abortion). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

See also

• Altruism
• Anarchism
• Belief
• Buddhism
• Cultural identity
• Ideology
• Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Paradigm
• Perspective
• Pessimism
• Philosophy
• Point of view
• Reality
• Religion
• Social reality
• Socially constructed reality

Jump to: navigation, search Altruism is either a practice or habit (in the view of many, a virtue) as well as an ethical doctrine. ... Jump to: navigation, search Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of all forms of government and social hierarchy. ... Jump to: navigation, search Look up belief on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jump to: navigation, search A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had... Jump to: navigation, search This article may be confusing for some readers, and should be edited to enhance clarity. ... Jump to: navigation, search An ideology is a collection of ideas. ... Jump to: navigation, search Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of first principles and being (ontology). ... Jump to: navigation, search In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: being (part. ... Since the late 1800s, the word paradigm (IPA: ) has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. ... Perspective is the choice of a single point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, typically for comparing with another. ... Pessimism, generally, describes a belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse; or that looks to the eventual triumph of evil over good; it contrasts with optimism, the contrary belief in the goodness and betterment of things generally. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... A point of view, viewpoint or POV, is the following: On a given topic, a point of view is a cognitive perspective. ... Jump to: navigation, search Reality in everyday usage means everything that exists. ... Social reality is distinct from biological or individual cognitive reality, and consists of the accepted social tenets of a community. ... Socially constructed reality forms a concept within the sociology of knowledge and the social constructionist strand of postmodernism. ...

External link

• Official site
• More extensive history of Zero Population Growth