July 11 is World Population Day - New York Times Square action planned

Fri, 2011-07-08 10:52 by admin

Tens of millions of people will see the 15-second spot, which is airing once an hour on CBS's Super LED Screen, a 520-square-foot television on 42nd Street in the heart of Times Square Plaza. It's important to highlighting the issue now: The planet's population is expected to hit 7 billion this fall.

Square Ad Links Extinction and Overpopulation

Monday, July 11 is World Population Day, so what better place to spread the word about overpopulation driving species extinct than one of the most crowded places in the country? On Friday, the Center for Biological Diversity launched a new public service ad in New York City's Times Square broadcasting the link between unsustainable human population growth and the rapid disappearance of plants and animals around the globe. With arresting images and straightforward text, our ad starkly illustrates the cause and effect:

Too many of us. Not enough room for them. Human population growth is driving species extinct.

Click here to see the beautiful PSA short video-announcement for yourself and learn more about the effects of unsustainable population growth. Then check out more on World Population Day.

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Agent Provocateur

Sun, 2011-07-10 03:26

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The planet's population is expected to hit 7 BILLION this fall

July 11 is World Population Day - New York Times Square action planned http://candobetter.net/comment/reply/2516#comment-form This article by Admin caught my eye! I've been complaining about the lack of elbow room with SIX Billion people on the planet! 7 Billion People On The Planet , - and its "Beam Me UP Scotty!"- time. ... 'Tens of millions of people will see the 15-second spot, which is airing once an hour on CBS's Super LED Screen, a 520-square-foot television on 42nd Street in the heart of Times Square Plaza. It's important to highlighting the issue now: The planet's population is expected to hit 7 billion this fall.'

Anonymous (not verified)

Sun, 2011-07-10 08:35

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We can't solve problems with the same thing causing them

You'd think, given the problems of climate change, water, food production, energy etc, our policymakers would be looking at curbing population growth. The reality is the opposite - we are being driven into economic growth through population growth. As Albert Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." We can't mitigate climate change and at the same time continue to increase our population. They are part of the same problem! Any attempts to combat climate change are futile while we keep adding to the thing that causes it - us.

Anonymous (not verified)

Mon, 2011-07-11 17:39

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This is exactly how the problem is being "solved"

Our aging population crisis is being solved (?) or addressed by adding more young immigrants and babies to our population. The demographic bulge of baby-boomers was caused by high birth rates and immigration rates after WW11 and into the 1950s. The same phenomenon that caused the problem can't also the the solution - as Einstein says!

Tigerquoll

Tue, 2011-07-12 21:20

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Immigration pushing population problem to the States

Immigration lets the hoards in. The States are forced to cope with the social and economic congestion, burden, and stresses and Australian environmental degradation. There is nothing complex about the problem. The root cause is federal immigration policy allowing and inviting hoards of foreigners to pressure Australia's resources. The problem is the Australian government, be it Gillard, Rudd or Abbott is encouraging the influx and so degrading Australia's landscape, society and economy. If enough of the hoards arrive and breed, the problems of the third world will become Australia's. Shifting breeders just shifts the human problem, but it doesn't solve it. Human containment and sterilisation is the only ethical solution. Unethical solutions exist and will become options while ignorant people remain ignorant. War, genocide and famine are some of those other options from history that keep repeating themselves due to recurring selective ignorance. Tigerquoll Suggan Buggan Snowy River Region Victoria 3885 Australia

Anonymous (not verified)

Tue, 2011-07-12 22:45

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New Zealand won't take randomly arriving asylum-seekers

New Zealand has refused entry to a boat load of Sri Lankan asylum seekers, saying it would only open the door to "millions of others" and reward people smugglers. Prime Minister Mr Key said New Zealand took in 750 refugees a year and would not accept anyone who did not follow the normal channels. The asylum-seekers, now moored at off the coast of Sumatra, have refused to leave their ship, with a spokesman for the group yesterday afternoon saying they remained determined to make it to New Zealand. Of course, once they are installed in New Zealand, they will legally make their way to Australia. Australia is a magnet to the world's "refugees" due to our high immigration rate - it's a "welcome" mat! The 1951 Refugee convention is outdated and should be negated. There are too many "refugees" simply escaping poverty, conflict, overpopulation and looking for a better life. Australia's living standards are declining and costs soaring. 'There are literally millions of people in this category. It's not a simple thing to just say 'let's take this boat in and be good citizens'. Denmark has just introduced a very superficial border control – to stop the immigration flow from the Euromediterranean from submerging Denmark. The Schengen Agreement eliminating internal border controls is considered to be a milestone of European integration. No single European Union policy has generated as much enthusiasm among the citizens of Europe as the freedom of borderless travel. A half century ago 77 million of the globe’s people were immigrants, meaning they live in a place different from their place of birth; today the figure has nearly tripled to 214 million, increasing at nearly two per cent annually. Some 25,000 Tunisian migrants arrived on European coasts this past month. But instead of welcoming them, France and Italy are fighting for a way to get rid of them. Mediterranean border nations, such as Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain, regularly complain that the EU neglects immigration, burdening them with the costs of illegal immigration. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, both decided to send a letter to the European Commission asking to reinforce the Frontex agency – the European border police – but also seeking to reform the Schengen agreement or to suspend it. Maybe they should take an example from New Zealand and say enough is enough!

July 11 is World Population Day - New York Times Square action planned

Square Ad Links Extinction and Overpopulation

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The planet's population is expected to hit 7 BILLION this fall

We can't solve problems with the same thing causing them

This is exactly how the problem is being "solved"

Immigration pushing population problem to the States

New Zealand won't take randomly arriving asylum-seekers

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