Earth Day

Earth Day 2000 was April 22.

What is the environmental impact of population growth? Population density? How does international family planning slow population growth and protect the environment?

What does Earth Day mean for the wealthiest billion people, who consume the most and generate the most waste, and the poorest billion, who may damage their meager resource base in the daily struggle to avoid starvation?

• Read one-page fact sheets on Population and the Environment, and Population and Resource Consumption.

• Contact organizations that study the links between population and the environment.

• Find facts from Johns Hopkins University about how slowing population growth through international family planning protects the environment and preserves natural resources. Read an overview on Why Family Planning Matters.

• Read about a new ranking of countries’ carbon dioxide emissions from Population Action International.

See how other media outlets have covered population and the environment. Read the special Earth Day 2000 edition of Time Magazine, or find out more from E Magazine's special October 1999 Day of Six Billion edition.

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