We are a group of individuals representing conservation, education, social welfare, religious, and consumer concerns. There is a limit to the number of people our planet can support. We are responsible to future generations, whose very existence depends on our ability to stabilize world population and create sustainable systems. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Absolute vigilance in rational population planning is necessary to avoid the irrational controls of famine, disease and war.
Overpopulation poses the greatest single threat to life on earth.
Our global quality of life will vary inversely with the number of people on this planet. Efforts to reduce population will fail unless they are directed equally at the economically undeveloped, underdeveloped and developed nations. We in the U.S. have a special responsibility to control the effects of our population's consumption on the planet's resources, because our per capita consumption of resources is disproportionate to the rest of the world's.