Posts Tagged ‘Overpopulation’

Dallas-Ft. Worth is home to lots and lots of non-profits groups. But most are either large United Fund-size operations with sizable budgets, or run by folks who really don't need to get paid for their time. And almost none work with hardcore environmental or social change issues. Considering how large the region is, it's embarrassing that there's so little infrastructure for the kind of non-profit that does what we do here at Downwinders.

There are some signs of life however. For one thing the emphasis on the "purplization" of Texas means more east and west coast money will be coming to Texas, not only to fund partisan Democratic Party activity, but also to do broader social change work.

Then there are things like this. Apparently some determined people in the DFW are have decided that a lot of the problems they deal with everyday – traffic, pollution, water scarcity – all have a shared root cause. There are just too many people taking up too much room and too many resources for this little Earth to handle. For anyone who's seen the rise of the Metromess over the last 30-40 years, this is a no-brainer. There's the equivalent of a new DFW moving to the state every couple of years. While we have lots of space and welcome visitors, not all that space is suitable for sustainable living, and what we have is becoming less so because of he strain of so many newcomers.

These local folks have teamed up with a national group, the Population Media Center, and raised money to hire a Texas Chapter Director, who they plan on offering a real living wage to do their work for them. What's the Population Media Center you ask?

Population Media Center was founded in 1998 by William Ryerson, with the intention of using the extensive experience of experts in entertainment-education to spread the application of the Sabido methodology in addressing population and reproductive health issues. In the fourteen years since PMC’s inception, the organization has been a pioneer in the use of new methodologies for informing people about reproductive health issues and promoting behavior change.

Even if you don't plan to apply, it's worth checking out how a national group plans to come to the area and establish a presence with what kind of salary and benefits are being offered. To read more about the job, go the group's Carreerbuilder site. Good luck to all the applicants and we welcome the PMC to town and hope they can do some good works here. Lord knows DFW is the poster child of unchecked growth and the environmental problems it can cause.