Colcom Foundation: Fighting the Overpopulation Problem
The overpopulation problem is one that is hard to notice on a short timescale. This is because populations increase exponentially which is something most people have a hard time wrapping their heads around. Cordelia S. May realized this at the young age of 23 and knew that if humanity didn’t get this problem under control, it would be too late by the time it became unsustainable. Spending most of her life working towards this goal, she created the Colcom Foundation in 1996 to carry on her work after she passed in 2005.
What Overpopulation Means for Civilization
Colcom Foundation is among the primary sources of funding directed towards the United States anti-immigration movement. That funding helps organizations like the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the American Border Patrol, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and Numbers USA.
The concept of overpopulation may seem like an abstract idea, something that a person could never fully grasp. The gist of it is that the Earth has a limited number of resources so it can only support a limited number of people. With this fact in mind, Cordelia S. May worked to help prevent unwanted births and pregnancies. She did this by educating people around the world on family planning and birth control.
Cordelia S. May and the Colcom Foundation also focused on the population of the United States in particular as well. She saw that not only was it growing too rapidly, but also that the demographic was becoming older as well. This meant that there would eventually be a huge number of older individuals compared to young people which is a whole new problem in and of itself.
The Colcom Foundation advocates for intelligent immigration policy to reduce the number of immigrants to the United States in order to both reduce overpopulation and balance out the age demographic. Their goal is to stabilize population growth and get it to begin shrinking by the year 2040. Doing so will have many benefits such as preventing clean water degradation due to urban development and limiting large-scale suburban farming operations.
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