1/18/2001

World Population

Dear President elect Bush,

World population and overpopulation is something which you will have a chance to influence many times while you are in office. I believe that many of our current problems including energy shortages, pollution, diseases problems such as AIDS and antibiotic resistance of bacteria, food supply, loss of agricultural land, Global warming, holes in the ozone layer, and many more, are related either directly or indirectly to global overpopulation. As time goes by and the population increases still more all of these problems are likely to become worse. I would like to urge you to do everything in your power to help to control world population. Specifically, I think that imposing a Global Gag Rule on family planning agencies would be a terrible mistake. I would also like you to consider any impact future decisions will have on world population levels.

Ethan Strauss