Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Population, Sustainability, Volume 35
by Susan F. Newcomer. Addressing population growth in human terms, not as the bugbear “overpopulation,” necessitates addressing sexuality and childbearing, two particularly sensitive topics. Over the years, Quakers have addressed “episodes of sexual activity” as...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, Population, Volume 35
by Stan Becker, Tom Cameron, Dick Grossman, Roy Treadway. As ecological disasters of all kinds threaten our planet-—disasters worsened by increasing population—the number of humans on the Earth reached 8 billion in November, according to the United Nations Population...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Population, Volume 33
By Richard Grossman. Most Friends are careful stewards of our environment. Indeed, more than half of Yearly Meetings have added “Stewardship” (or the equivalent) to their short list of Testimonies. However, sometimes we don’t make the connection between our...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Population, Quaker-Specific, Volume 33
By Stan Becker. Here Stan Becker shares his spiritual and professional journey initiated by his early concern for the growth of human population on Earth. It is a story of his initial “vivid visual experience” in Mexico, which led him to search for an academic program...
Dec 22, 2019 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Population
Friends have long been concerned about how we live on our Earth and how we can best support a good life for everyone and all species. Sustainability requires that we use Earth’s resources at a level that provides a reasonable life for all now and maintains the...
