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Marian Starkey, VP for Communications, had a letter to the editor
published in the Sunday, June 6th, edition of the New York Times. Her
letter is in response to the front page article from May 23rd, "World
Is Facing First Long Slide in Its Population."

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The letter is printed in full below. As always, we welcome feedback
and comments at [email protected].

 

LTE NewYorkTimes June2021

To the Editor:

"World Is Facing First Long Slide in Its Population"
(front page, May 23) misses the big picture. World population is still
growing by 80 million people annually, and it won't stop for
several more decades.

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Most of that growth is happening in the poorest places on earth
- many in sub-Saharan Africa. If the Italian towns of Capracotta
and Agnone want to boost their populations of working-age residents,
there's a steady stream of people willing to risk their lives
crossing the Mediterranean to get there.

The article refers to a paradigm shift necessary to address the
"strain of longer lives and low fertility" that
"threatens to upend how societies are organized." As the
status quo changes, people adapt to the new normal.

If public health campaigns can get billions of people to wear masks
and stay six feet apart for over a year, surely economists and
politicians can figure out how to restructure economies away from a
strict dependency on infinite population growth. Perhaps the cleaner
air and water that will result from our slower growth will even be
inspirational.

Marian Starkey, Washington. The writer is Vice President for
Communications at Population Connection.

You can also read the letter in the web edition of the Times here
(please note that the letter is behind a paywall).

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