[gpva-ic] [gpva-platform] Call for vote on Platform Amendment Amendment: Population

[Frank Munley]

I approve.

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If the world is to be unified, as it must be if it is to survive, it can only be by a spread of the scientific spirit.  I mean by this, not technical cleverness, but the habit of judging by evidence and suspending judgment where evidence is lacking.
Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1952, p. 195)

On Jul 9, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Audrey Clement wrote:

I approve.
 
Audrey
 
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:25:24 -0400
From: procor at bsidneysmith.com
To: gpva-ic at vagreenparty.org; gpva-platform at vagreenparty.org
Subject: [gpva-ic] [gpva-platform] Call for vote on Platform Amendment Amendment: Population

Dear IC Members:
 
The GPUS National Committee is now deliberating on whether to adopt the Population plank recently submitted by GPVA as an amendment to the GPUS Platform. 
 
The friendly amendment below has been offered by the Texas Green Party. Please indicate whether you approve this friendly amendment by 12:01 a.m., Saturday, July 12, 2014.
 

The original amendment to the GPUS platform read: 

N. Human Population Stabilization
The human population is likely to have exceeded the Earth’s carrying capacity by mid-century at the current level of consumption and rate of reproduction.  The Green Party recognizes that it is necessary to both reduce excess consumption and curb the population’s present exponential growth in order to stabilize it at a sustainable level.  To achieve this goal ethically and humanely, the Green Party recommends making birth control and family planning services available to all who want them as outlined in Chapter II of this Platform, along with implementing policies to reduce consumption as described in Chapter IV.

The proposed amendment, offered as a "friendly amendment", replaces the first sentence with the following:

The continued exponential growth of human population, along with unsustainable consumption patterns, is jeopardizing the quality of life for all humans and is a major contributor to habitat destruction and the extinction of other species. By reducing biodiversity, we are undermining the health of the biosphere on which we all depend.

The amended amendment would then read: 

N. Human Population Stabilization
The continued exponential growth of the human population, along with unsustainable consumption patterns, is jeopardizing the quality of life for all humans and is a major contributor to habitat destruction and the extinction of other species. By reducing biodiversity, we are undermining the health of the biosphere on which we all depend.  The Green Party recognizes that it is necessary to both reduce excess consumption and curb the population’s present exponential growth in order to stabilize it at a sustainable level.  To achieve this goal ethically and humanely, the Green Party recommends making birth control and family planning services available to all who want them as outlined in Chapter II of this Platform, along with implementing policies to reduce consumption as described in Chapter IV.

Please indicate your vote reply to the listserve. Thank you.

Sid

P.s. Apologies if this message is duplicated. It appeared that when I first sent it after midnight that it did not go through.

 
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B. Sidney Smith



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