Let's All Celebrate "Earth is for People Day"

The idea that "people are pollution" is flat wrong

Contact: Anne Morse, Media Coordinator, Population Research Institute, 540-660-2733, anne@pop.org

FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 21, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Population Research Institute is hosting an earth day event advocating an end to human rights abuses in the name of the environment. The Population Research Institute is a human rights watchdog organization that documents and exposes coercive population control programs.

This Earth Day, PRI argues that people are not pollution. PRI is hosting an "Earth is for People Day" event online for people to ask questions about population growth and the environment.

PRI President Steven Mosher explains: "People are the world's greatest resource. Pollution is caused by human behavior, not by human births. A child may grow-up to kill endangered species, or may grow up to be a biologist. Either way, coercing the child's mother to accept contraception or forcing her to abort is an unjustifiable human rights violation. Far too often, the most vulnerable have their human rights trampled in the name of the environment."

"Being good stewards of the planets resources should not mean waging a war on women's fertility," says Mosher, an eyewitness to forced abortions and forced sterilizations in China. "One of the great ironies of this century is the war on mothers in the name of protecting mother earth, and the silence of the mainstream media allows environmental radicals to perpetuate the abuse."

Steven Mosher was recently featured in a documentary, "It's Easy Being Green When You Have No Choice," a new film exploring the ideological roots of the "sustainable development" movement. "There is a multi-billion dollar industry that attacks women's fertility in the name of 'sustainable development,'" Mosher says. "Ask the population controllers what—in the name of the environment—they are willing to do? The answer? Almost anything: they arrest women for the crime of pregnancy, give them Caesarean section abortions, sterilize men and women without consent."

Steven Mosher has appeared numerous times before Congress as an expert in world population, China, and human rights abuses. He has also made TV appearances on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, 20/20, FOX and CNN news, as well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation.

Steven Mosher will be available for radio interviews surrounding Earth Day.

Press Contact: Anne Roback Morse; anne@pop.org; 540-660-2733