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AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Gield Museum of Vatural MHistory 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE SHORE DRIVE - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60605 



ESTABLISHED 1897 
























ORGANIZED FOR THE PROTECTION OF WILD BIRDS AND 
THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 
AUDUBON NEWSLETTER 
Vol. 9 No. 2 Judith Joy — Editor February, 1970 

THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMUM POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT 
The year 1970 ushers in the new decade when this country and the world finally comes to grips with 
the twin major problems of this spaceship: how to preserve our natural and human environment and 
how to stabilize our human population. As one of the conservation leaders has proclaimed from one end 
of this nation to the other in talks and dinners, TV and radio appearances: ‘Whatever your cause, it’s a 
_ lost cause unless we control population.’’ Good causes such as schools, churches, colleges, hospitals, 
museums, libraries, community chests, heart funds, and outdoor conservation will be swamped by just 
too many people. 
The brochure of the Congress on Population and Environment (65 East Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 
60611) describes the crisis this way: “The fact is clearly emerging that the delicate balance upon which 
Our environment depends is a complex, interdependent system of living things whose existence is 
| maintained by its very delicacy and complexity. Man has tampered with this ecology and has damaged 
its awesome balance. Such damage is becoming increasingly apparent in the United States. It is no longer 
necessary to apologize for discussing the need to control population growth and conserve environmental 
resources.” 
“Take a walk through a teeming urban area, open a window in any city and breathe deeply, drive 
along our littered highways, sail a boat on a once fresh lake, or fly over stripped forests and eroded 
farmlands, and it will be apparent that a dangerous crisis of ecological imbalance already exists. Unless 
|man...acts to limit his reproduction and eliminate the poisons which are changing his environment 
from beneficent to hostile, he is dooming himself, his children, and his environment.” 
Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations, has pointed out that reports of his advisers indicate 
that mankind has 10 to 25 years to reverse the process of over-population and destruction of his 
environment. The Newsletter of the Massachusetts Audubon Society counsels us that though we were to 
stabilize our population now, the growth would continue for at least another generation. 
The Conference on Optimum Population and Environment will meet at the Pick-Congress Hotel in 
Chicago on June 7 to 10th, 1970. Attendance will be by invitation only but over 1,100 delegates are 
expected to attend, including those from conservation groups. The Chicago Host Committee is headed 
by Mrs. Wm. Robinson, an IAS member from Chicago. The Conference will be publicized by a host of 
Press stories, and TV and radio appearances of some of the leading participants. 
... Raymond Mostek, President, Illinois Audubon Society 
NOTE — THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY HAS AGREED TO BE A SPONSOR OF THIS FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS. 

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