Santa Barbara, U.S.A. — July 11 is World Population Day, an annual observance to educate the public about the problems of overpopulation and continuing population growth. It grew out of the public interest in Five Billion Day in 1987 when the global population reached five billion people. A quarter century later, world population now exceeds 7 billion and is growing by 80 million per year.

“This dire situation underscores the need to provide safe and effective family planning to the hundreds of millions of men and women who lack it. Families must have the ability to determine the number and spacing of their children,” said Marilyn DeYoung, Chairman of the Board of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS).

CAPS is a nonprofit  organization founded in 1986 that focuses specifically on preserving California’s future through the stabilization of the state’s human population. CAPS also works more broadly to educate about the overall impacts of overpopulation and the environmental impacts of “too many people” throughout the world. In recent years since nearly all of California’s runaway population growth has come from immigration, CAPS has focused  on this issue by sponsoring public and media awareness campaigns, working with lawmakers to promote more responsible policies, maintaining a growing network of member-activists, and conducting vital research about how to create a sustainable state.

A major report from Britain’s Royal Society last year noted that the population must be stabilized rapidly to avoid “a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills.” While world population has soared 40 percent since the first World Population Day, the United States has grown almost as rapidly, increasing 30 percent, from 242 million in 1987 to almost 314 million today.

“Continuing growth of the human population is the most serious environmental problem for our planet and for our nation. The consequences of that growth are all around us—loss of open space, air and water pollution, and never-ending sprawl. Habitat loss due to population growth is by far the greatest threat to wildlife. We must tackle this paramount issue,” stated DeYoung, who served on the President’s Commission on Population Growth and the American Future in 1970.

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Sacramento, U.S.A. — A new poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on behalf of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) finds that 61% of Californians say they will be less likely to vote for Governor Jerry Brown if he signs into law a bill giving illegal aliens authorization to legally obtain California driver’s licenses. The poll also found that half of all Californians believe Governor Brown is doing a poor job of getting the California economy moving again and putting unemployed Californians back to work.

“Giving illegal aliens the right to legally obtain California driver’s licenses is like giving them a license to take unemployed Californians’ jobs,” commented Marilyn DeYoung, Chairman of the Board of Californians for Population Stabilization. “It’s time Governor Brown focused on opening jobs for unemployed Californians instead of making it easier for illegal aliens to take our jobs.”

The Driver’s license bill will be introduced later this year for the eighth time by Los Angeles Assemblyman Gil Cedillo. The bill is expected to be approved and presented to Governor Brown for his signature before the end of the year. Similar bills were passed by the California legislature in previous years but were vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Only two other states in America, New Mexico and Washington State, allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses.

63% of poll participants oppose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Top reasons include:

• Illegal aliens have broken the law and should not be rewarded.
• The license will become an official ID card illegal aliens can use to obtain other taxpayer benefits.
• It will encourage more illegal immigration.

Mrs. DeYoung also voiced security concerns. “The 911 hijackers used driver’s licenses to gain access to our airplanes and kill 3,000 Americans. I don’t have a lot confidence that the California DMV has the ability to run background checks that could identify potential terrorists.”

The poll was recently conducted among one thousand likely voters in California. Other findings include:

• 70% favor mandating that all California employers electronically verify their workers are in the country legally and have a work visa.
• 76% think new California jobs should go to unemployed Californians instead of bringing in new legal immigrant workers

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