It’s here! The creative team at PRI has released the fourth episode of our highly popular YouTube cartoon series. The latest video is available for viewing at overpopulationisamyth.com, or by visiting PRI’s YouTube page here.
The video tackles the root causes of poverty and how to alleviate it (hint: overpopulation is not the cause of poverty). All of this, while retaining the wry, humorous tone of its predecessors.
The series, which has garnered more than a half-million views to date, has been collecting kudos from across the internet. Just look at some of the comments below:
Prominent Catholic blogger Thomas Peters of AmericanPapist.com calls the series “flat-out brilliant. It’s factual, but accessible.”
Tim Drake of the National Catholic Register calls our series “a clever look at the myth of overpopulation.”
And according to First Things, our “humorous cartoons” show that “fortunately, the myth of overpopulation is easy to debunk.”
“Reducing the number of people in the world doesn’t make those who remain any wealthier,” says Joseph Powell, the creator and animator of the series. “That’s why, as we show in our video, population control isn’t the answer to poverty.”
“We set out to be entertaining,” adds Colin Mason, PRI’s Director of Media Production and the video’s editor. “The idea is to artfully enthrall the viewer, who at the same time effortlessly absorbs certain demographic truths, chiefly, that people in their numbers create wealth, not poverty.”
“The fight against the myth of overpopulation does not have to be a bare-knuckled brawl,” says Steven Mosher, PRI’s president. “These videos are funny and easy to digest, the very opposite of Al Gore’s boring pronouncements on the ‘dangers’ of too many people. Our viewers end up considering the science that supports our pro-people position, often for the very first time. We say to our skeptics: watch, laugh, and learn.”
