We need to educate them. We can provide the necessary tools, for family planning at is simply a matter of education. The federal government tried to do that, but last year a short-sighted congress stood in the way. It may be easy to sit in congress and tie American funding of global family planning clinics to popular moral principles espoused by vocal members of the electorate. There s always next year, after the election.
Family planning is needed in every country, including our own.
And it is the most effective conservation tactic we have. The electorate needs to see it as well. Yet the connection eludes many, starting with university graduates who vote and consume and have babies. Many of these graduates also teach the next generation, unaware of how the world works, or, more importantly, how the world may not work in the near future. Thus the first point of intervention in conserving our natural resources is education about population growth and the extinction of plants and animals.