VOLUME 57 | ISSUE 4 | December 2025
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Celebrating 50 Years of Population Education
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Educating young people about the impact of our numbers and consumption patterns helps them become more thoughtful future professionals, parents (if they choose to have children), consumers, and voters. Despite the importance of population literacy, however, our Population Education (PopEd) program—which turns 50 this year—is one of the few remaining of its kind in the United States. With a staff of 13 and a volunteer network of nearly 700 teacher trainers, we reach approximately 50,000 educators who utilize our curriculum materials in their classrooms, impacting around 3 million K–12 students annually.
Click through below to read more about PopEd in the featured articles of the December 2025 issue of Population Connection.
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PROGRAM UPDATES
[[link removed]] Introducing Our New Organizing Manager, Isabel Song
A veteran of multiple Democratic political campaigns, Isabel brings her organizing leadership and dedication to reproductive freedom to the #Fight4HER.
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[[link removed]] Trump Administration Continues Relentless Attacks on Reproductive Health and Rights
The administration is working aggressively to undermine access to reproductive health care both at home and abroad.
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[[link removed]] An Interview with PopEd’s Longtime Leader, Pam Wasserman
Pam came to Population Connection with a passion for reproductive rights and environmental preservation in 1988, when the organization was still called Zero Population Growth, or ZPG (and when the world population was only 5 billion!).
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[[link removed]] Global Partner Spotlight: Wuqu’ Kawoq (Maya Health Alliance)
Led by Indigenous Maya people, Wuqu’ Kawoq provides high quality health care to more than 11,000 patients annually through visits to homes, clinics, and community centers in Guatemala’s Central Highlands.
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[[link removed]] Site Visits in Guatemala
Over the summer and fall, we hosted a special series of virtual events moderated by Senior Analyst Hannah Evans, who traveled to Guatemala to visit several of our partner organizations earlier this year.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Friend,
“Development and distribution of educational materials [about the momentum of population growth] we would place very high on ZPG’s list of priorities — and efforts to introduce the concept of demographic momentum into school curricula are particularly important.”
– Paul and Anne Ehrlich, 1978
Nearly a half-century after Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s strong recommendation, Population Connection’s Population Education program is the only nationwide one of its kind. Actively used by teachers in thousands of K–12 classrooms across Northern America, our materials are carefully researched, rigorously secular, and custom-designed to meet the needs of educators at all levels.
We train over 10,000 teachers annually and provide curriculum materials that encourage students at every grade level to think for themselves as they make connections between population challenges and everything from the environment to the economy to the complexities of society itself. Slogans and tweets can’t and won’t provide the pathway to a better, safer, less-crowded future. Education can and will.
Writing just 10 years after our founding in 1968, Paul and Anne Ehrlich pronounced that “ZPG members must realize that they are in for a long battle […] But the game will be worth the candle.” Of course, the Ehrlichs were and are scientists, not soothsayers. But their words have proven prophetic.
Quotes by Paul and Anne Ehrlich from “ZPG: Where to Now?” ZPG National Reporter , Vol. 10, No. 4 (1978).
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