... as substantial improvements in reducing child and maternal mortality and morbidity. There can be no question that the world is paying a costly environmental and ecological price for this prodigious proliferation of human growth. Our forests are declining, our topsoil is eroding, our deserts are expanding, our climate is undergoing radical change. We are looking at resource shortages - including severe scarcity of water and food in many developing regions. We are today a world of 6.2 billion people, growing by 78 million more each year. Ninety-seven percent of that growth occurs in the poorest countries - countries too often torn by civil strife and social unrest and where all too many survive on the equivalent of less than one U.S. dollar a day. Continuing high growth rates cannot be construed to mean that our generation is sexier than previous generations. Rapid population growth is primarily attributable to enormous strides in lowering mortality ...

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