Mission of Growth Education
All over the country people are concerned
about the adverse impacts of sprawl in their neighborhood. Thousands of local civic groups, national non-profit
organizations, and state and federal agencies are working to minimize sprawl.
There are many successes. But when these
successes are measured against the open space we are losing daily, it is clear that our efforts to curb sprawl are
being overwhelmed in areas experiencing rapid population growth.
Vanishing open space is but one example
where population growth adversely affects our quality of life. Yet population growth is glaringly absent from out
national discourse. To help remedy this omission, Growth Education was founded for the purpose of
educating the general public. Specifically, the corporate mission is to make people aware that:
failing to address U.S. population growth
will increasingly diminish the quality of life of our children and grandchildren,
- our mushrooming population is neither
inevitable nor economically necessary, and
- U.S. population stabilization can be achieved by voluntary means supported by
the vast majority of Americans.
Education is critically needed because
awareness precedes action. Politicians at every level avoid the population stabilization issue even though
presidential reports acknowledge the need to address the issue.
They will not act in the absence of a demand
for action. Only when enough people become aware of the problems and solutions, will there be a demand for change.
Only then will there be a demand for programs that promote population stabilization via voluntary means.
The primary tools of the Growth Education
Movement are books.
The issue of population growth is complex
and fraught with misconceptions. To reach people in a convincing way, to be effective in educating them, the issues
and solutions must be set forth in a dispassionate, rational, and complete manner.
In other words, objective, well-supported
books are an essential tool. On the other hand, no matter how informative a book may be, it can be effective only
if people are interested enough to read it.
As of the summer of 2003, Growth Education
Movement has published one book, In Growth We Trust, and has produced one video of the same title.
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