September 21, 2021

Bringing population into the environmental discussion

In just the past fifty years, the world's population has more than doubled and three times as many people live in urban areas than a half century ago. Yet this aspect of environmental change gets pushed out of the discussion of the issue, in  part because it's not considered polite to suggest to others how many children they should have. Here's an organization taking on this issue and proposing some approaches. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Educate women, and help them develop economic opportunities, that is the best proven way to slow population growth, and it only brings good to the communities where women are educated.