The Zero Population Growth Movement Spurs Environmental Consciousness
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Human Rights, Ecology, Environment, Conservation, Demographics, Population
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Women’s History
- Geographical Location: United States
- Date: November, 1967
Article abstract: Amid the Vietnam conflict and domestic demonstrations in the United States, “zero population growth” jumped into the American vocabulary and became both a political and an environmental cause.
Summary of Event
In 1968, during the social and political unrest in the United States brought on by the Vietnam conflict, zero population growth came of age. It was a new movement with slogans of Stop at Two and Onlies Are Okay. The movement joined forces with other human rights movements of the day such as those pursuing civil rights,...
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