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The speech was part of Fomos' ongoing lecture se ries advocating methods to level-off the global population. Spanish major Paul Lubliner or ganized the efforts to bring Fomos to the University. "This is an issue that needs to be ad dressed more somehow, and bringing Fomos here is one way to get the mes sage out there a little more," he said. Eradication of female illiteracy was a main point of Fornos' lecture. Ac cording to Fomos, women with an eighth-grade education have half as many children as uneducated women. In addition to a number of other issues, Fornos said access to contra ceptives or birth control information was vital to curbing the world's popu lation. These problems occur most of ten in underdeveloped nations, which typically have high population growth rates, Fornos said. He cited countries including Bangladesh as a common cases of overpopulation. Bangladesh has a population of 130 million and is the size of Wisconsin, which has a popu lation of only 5.5 million. Fomos criticized the American gov ernment for not doing enough to solve the problem. "Right now the United States is spend ing a cup of coffee and a doughnut on reproduction education," he said. He cited the United States' with drawal of funding to a United Na tions-backed population education program, adding that the United States is currently the only country not fund ing or participating in the program. The education program provides in formation about birth control and free contraceptives to people in underdevel oped countries. Fomos said condoms were the most important contraceptives to slow population growth. Fomos also criticized religious groups and the Bush administration's push for abstinence as a replacement for condoms and other contraceptives as birth control. "I have no problem with absti nence education, but I have a prob lem with bad science that says con doms are bad for your health," he said. "The problem with voodoo reli gious ideas instead of good science is that it causes death ." "(Overpopulation) may see us committing the ultimate global blun der from which there is no return," Fomos said. Population is not a problem in the United States, Lubliner said, but is something that will affect the country in the future. "UO students should learn about this problem so they can help find a solution to it," he said. "We need to look a few generations down the line and see where we're headed." Cory Eldridge is a freelance reporter for the Emerald. NEWS BRIEF Peace Walker will give presentation Saturday Derek Walker Youngs, who has been walking for peace for the last 18 years, will present a multimedia presentation Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in 110 Willamette. The 90-minute presentation will include more than 100 images and storytelling from Youngs' walks in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. There will also be a preview of his documentary, "Walk ing in Israel," where he walked 80 kilometers with a group of other Canadians from the Mediterranean Sea to Jerusalem. According to a release from the Peace Walker Society, Youngs has walked more than 24,000 kilometers in 17 countries. He has gone from "walking for peace to walking in Look for Special Event coming this month to Rainbow Optics! i , l - I, x \ \ ! i ' l AU DAY EVEAY DAY/ 444 E.3RD • 484-191/ • NON-SAT ll:30AH TO CLOSE South end of Ferry St. Bridge peace," when he walks without know ing where he will sleep or eat next. Tickets to the event are a $ 10 dona tion and are $5 for students and low income individuals. For more information about Youngs or the Peace Walker Society, visit http://www.peacewalker.com. 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