Watch Jane Goodall discuss some of her views on "Overpopulation". As you listen, try to fill the gaps with the missing words.




Interviewer: “You’ve eluded a couple of times to the problem of , yet, at all the world on global , this and that, we never hear about the problem of overpopulation. Do you think it’s a ‘’ subject, and, if so, why?”

Jane Goodall: “It’s been politically incorrect for a very long time. If you go to a conference on those issues and I’m there, you will hear me talking about the mushrooming population growth that’s led to ‘’ that leads, not just to harm for the animals and the , but the people living there too, no question, like what I described at Gombi. And if you talk about overpopulation, and not population , that’s really what got to people, they don’t want to be controlled. And then, of course, there’s the Catholic Church. And that makes quite a problem when you are trying to get between the people and their environment, and that’s what has to happen if we’re going to take this world on through this , erm, that has to happen. Don’t you agree? We have to get more .”

2nd interviewee: “I agree, I think the is that in Europe there is population , so it’s a very world. To not talk about it and face it head-on is crazy.”

Jane Goodall: “Yeah, and, you know, people say, well you can’t talk about it in the world because, because, erm…you can’t because it’s not politically…it would go against their religion, their or something. But if you talk to a group…I’ve talked to hundreds of villagers, and said, you know, if you have a piece of land that can one family with two children, and they can go to school, and be happy, and then you fill that land up with children or twelve children, then they don’t have enough to eat, they’re not happy and they won’t get to school, because their parents will be , and everybody understands, and when we sent a family team around all of Take Care villages; there’s 24 of them, they would get , because there’s Seventh Day Adventists, and also the Muslims, but they came back smiling because every single village said, “Why didn’t you come before?” because culture’s and in the old days, you got old, you had many children, they the land, and you were rich. But now, there’s so many people, that you can’t give your children land, they go off to the , perhaps they can’t get a job, so you’re old; instead of being looked after, people come back and say, “I want to what you have”, and it’s not working, and it’s leading to , , erm, you know…”

2nd interviewee: “…and I think, the way you’ve framed it is such a and sane way to do it.”