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Lecture tackles overpopulation
U.N. Population Laureate
Werner Fornos addressed
several issues, including
reproductive education
By Cory Eldridge
Freelance Reporter
United Nations Population Laureate
Werner Fomos spoke to an audience of
200Thursday evening about the "prob
lem of overpopulation." 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.
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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
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