OUR MISSION
Envisioning a sustainable, healthy and happy human population living in harmony with the natural environment.
Utah and UPEC
Utah’s beautiful, pristine, and expansive natural environment has been greatly degraded in recent years, fueled by high population growth and rapid growth of its resource extraction-based economic sectors. Utah’s leaders are actively planning to accommodate a predicted doubling of the population in the next 20 to 30 years – especially along the urban Wasatch Front.
UPEC was founded in 1997 initially to provide a data-based foundation for considering population and environment concerns and issues. It is managed and directed by board members who meet regularly (please see Who We Are).
We believe it is our responsibility as citizens of the earth to be concerned about the environment, sustainability, and population. We place special value on the unique heritage and landscape of the state of Utah.
Read UPEC’s Updated White Paper
We all face many important choices as we live our lives and form relationships with others, and with society as a whole. Many factors influence population levels, of course, but this white paper will discuss one of the most personal and important choices we face that affects our population — how many children to bring into this world — and the implications of this choice for ourselves, and our state, nation, planet. READ MORE
There's good news and bad news coming out of the Census Bureau ... the U.S.'s overall population growth is slowing, but Utah -- no surprise -- continues to explode. Over the last decade, Wasatch County was the 3rd fastest growing county in America! We have a lot more to do ... ![]()
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Report: 3 Utah areas top nation in population growth
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No, you weren't imagining all that traffic on 40 coming from Park City! Unfortunately for Utah, Heber ranked fifth among all American metro areas for the most in-migration during the COVID 19 pandemic!
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Hi everyone. We're seeing a ton of articles like this one nowadays ... it's almost as if the worse we all feel things are getting, the more we are told to have more kids! This NYT article is worth a read, but it lacks a proper discussion of the ethical balancing of decisions to have children with the breadth of global environmental crises -- climate change and biodiversity loss at the forefront. The article falls back to a "if it feels right for you do it" position, citing philosophers' writings decades or centuries before awareness of the crises of the Anthropocene. It is not that deciding to have a child is inherently wrong or unethical -- of course not -- but we as a global community should be having more serious discussions about the needs, costs, and consequences of continued population growth given that the Earth is already well above global human carrying capacity. Waiting until the end of the century for the human population to begin to slowly and "naturally" downtrend will have increasingly detrimental consequences for these very upcoming generations, let alone remaining non-human life.![]()
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Opinion | Why, Despite Everything, You Should Have Kids (if You Want Them)
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In a time of Covid-19, climate change and catastrophe, having a baby i...
Do you agree that Utah’s population is growing too fast? This video highlights the many benefits we would all enjoy from slowing our population growth.
Utah, we live in a beautiful place.
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