TOP launched a 1-hour movie interview of Carl Wahren on 24 April that has been praised by eminent consultants and demographers. We are actually engaged on two extra movies about pioneers within the discipline of household planning. However to complete these movies we want just a few extra donations.
By The Overpopulation Venture
The interview of Carl Wahren this winter, protecting a interval of greater than 60 years, revealed many vital and interesting particulars within the historical past of household planning. These of you who’ve watched it are conscious of this, and hopefully assist to unfold it. Carl, who died in April, described success tales in addition to setbacks from which classes will be drawn. His skilled life began in 1962, and he spoke on Swedish Radio and wrote Op-Ed’s within the newspapers as much as his loss of life. The movie has been watched by lots of of individuals on TOP’s YouTube channel however deserves far more consideration, particularly from politicians and policymakers.
Statements concerning the movie from demographers:
“Thanks a lot for sharing the movie. I loved it vastly. I met Carl just a few occasions and admired him vastly.”
John Cleland, Emeritus Professor of Medical Demography on the London Faculty of Hygiene & Tropical Drugs
“Many thanks for sending this glorious doc. Carl Wahren was among the many pioneers of worldwide household planning, these individuals who modified the world by anticipating the inhabitants drawback and discovering the suitable options. The movie properly summarizes his private dedication to advancing these applications for the advantage of all girls around the globe”
Michel Garenne, PhD in Demography,
Senior Fellow, FERDI, Université de Clermont-Auvergne, France
Extraordinary Professor, College of the Western Cape, South Africa
“Carl was a pioneer within the household planning motion who cared deeply about bettering the lives of girls in poor international locations. This movie supplies an fascinating and precious abstract of the early years of this motion during which he was a pacesetter.”
John Bongaarts, Distinguished scholar, Inhabitants Council, Washington DC, USA
“It’s nice to study concerning the expertise of Carl Wahren- a household planning pioneer in growing international locations. I really loved this precious movie, which will likely be considered a studying doc on household planning practices for the current and the following era of learners. His contributions will likely be acknowledged within the discipline of inhabitants and improvement in growing international locations by enhancing the standard of lives of people- particularly girls”.
Mohammad Mainul Islam, Professor and former Chairman of the Division of Inhabitants Sciences on the College of Dhaka, Bangladesh
New movies from TOP – and name for donations
Given the modern pattern to put in writing household planning success tales out of historical past, we really feel it is important to placed on the document the first-hand accounts of those that have been concerned. These individuals are actually turning into aged so time is of the essence. It was an awesome privilege to satisfy Carl Wahren’s want to be recorded earlier than his loss of life. We’re at present working towards publishing edited interviews with Malcolm Potts and Invoice Ryerson. We hope so as to add extra household planning elders to the mission over time.
Malcolm Potts is Emeritus Professor on the Faculty of Public Well being, College of California at Berkeley, and likewise a founding director of the Bixby Heart for Inhabitants, Well being, and Sustainability. His expertise of labor on inhabitants, well being and contraception goes nearly way back to that of Carl, to the mid 1960’s. He has not solely been a productive scientist (with 10 books and 350 scientific papers and articles) however has additionally been a marketing consultant and mentor for household planning applications in a number of international locations. In depth interview footage with Professor Potts has already been recorded by Sofia Pineda Ochoa, producer of the movie Endgame 2050. With Sofia’s beneficiant collaboration, this may type the inspiration of our movie.
A 3rd movie interviews Invoice Ryerson, who discusses his profession and work experiences in household planning, together with his spectacular work growing the Inhabitants Media Heart. This group makes use of radio, TV and social media communication, together with serial ‘cleaning soap operas’, to affect the norms and actions of listeners and viewers. Their work has elevated the usage of contraception in a number of international locations.
The Carl Wahren movie is an effective high quality, low-budget movie, costing solely about 1900 US {dollars}. Different out there movies on overpopulation and household planning price much more; for instance, the wonderful 8 Billion Angels price about 1 million US {dollars}. With donations of about 3000 US {dollars}, it ought to be potential to finalize the Potts and Ryerson movies. A lot modifying of the movie materials is required, and complementary footage must be added. The photographer Johan Heurgren did an awesome job filming Carl and modifying that movie, and he will even assist us in future work if we receive extra funding.
This work is important and pressing. It’s now thirty years for the reason that landmark United Nations Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement in Cairo. Thirty years for the reason that worldwide group supported nationwide household planning applications that championed the huge advantages to oldsters and kids of contraception, youngster spacing and smaller households. Household planning applications, as soon as broadly supported as efficient enablers of improvement, are largely forgotten by most of the people. Even worse, they’re now usually disparaged by the UNFPA, the group tasked with facilitating world efforts to finish inhabitants progress. Because the 1994 Cairo convention, the UNFPA has rebranded itself as “the United Nations sexual and reproductive well being company.” The UNFPA now claims any give attention to inhabitants numbers is ‘alarmist’ and previous efforts for inhabitants management have been ‘futile and dangerous,’ regardless of most of them being totally voluntary and vastly useful for girls and society at giant. Inside this narrative, pioneering household planning applications which improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of girls are described as nefarious plots to hurt and management them.
The younger era, policymakers and most of the people in lots of international locations must be knowledgeable about overpopulation, inhabitants insurance policies and the true historical past of household planning applications. These first-hand accounts will add to the critiques of a number of nationwide household planning applications already revealed by TOP, in addition to latest analysis that additionally confirms their worth and significance.
Please contact Frank Götmark, frank.gotmark@bioenv.gu.se, if you wish to donate to additional this vital work. We respect your assist!
