- Sir David Attenborough CVO CBE, Naturalist, broadcaster and trustee of the British Museum and Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew; and a former controller of BBC Two.
- Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
- Professor Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
- Jane Goodall PhD DBE, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace.
- Susan Hampshire OBE, Actress and population campaigner
- Professor John Guillebaud Former Co-chair of OPT, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College, London. Former Medical Director, Margaret Pyke Centre for Family Planning.
- Professor Aubrey Manning OBE, President of the Wildlife Trusts and Emeritus Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Norman Myers CMG, Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford University, and at Universities of Harvard, Cornell, Stanford, California, Michigan and Texas
- Sara Parkin OBE, Founder Director and Trustee of Forum for the Future and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and Head Teachers into Industry.
- Jonathon Porritt CBE, Founder Director of Forum for the Future and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.
- Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO, Chancellor of Kent University, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute, and former UK Permanent Representative on the United Nations Security Council
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OPT campaigns for policies to achieve environmentally sustainable population levels both globally
and in the UK. The ecological issue is one of population numbers, resource demands and the
environmental impacts created by different sizes of population at given levels of affluence
and technology. For more details see the Fertility, Migration, Population policy projections,
Briefings and submissions and other sections of this website. OPT recommends the following
population policies:
- Globally, that full access to family planning should be provided to all those who do not have it,
that couples should be encouraged voluntarily to "Stop at Two" children to lessen the impact of
family size on the environment, and that this should be part of a holistic approach involving
better education and equal rights for women.
- In the UK, that population should be allowed to stabilise and decrease by not less than 0.25% a
year to an environmentally sustainable level, by bringing immigration into numerical balance
with emigration, by making greater efforts to reduce teenage pregnancies, and by encouraging
couples voluntarily to "Stop at Two" children.
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