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We seek to inspire behavioral & system change toward a smaller human footprint that embraces planetary boundaries, allowing all species to thrive.

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Our article in Newsweek is out today: "No amount of innovation can correct the cascading social and ecological harms wrought by decades of overshoot, whose solution we already know: a planned, thoughtful contraction of our population and consumption."

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Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme High Birthrates Won't Fix | Opinion

Our media outlets have a strange obsession with declining birth rates.

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Our article in Newsweek is out today: "In the end, alarmism about population decline is a distraction from the real crisis demanding attention: the human enterprise in overshoot, overwhelming the natural systems that enable life on Earth."

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Coercive Birth Policies Have Devastating Impacts on People and the Planet

Pronatalism is ascendant worldwide, from China's three-child policy, to 120 countries, including the United States, restricting abortion and clamping down on family planning. Such policies may serve...

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Dr. Bill Rees, our brilliant advisory board member and co-originator of ecological footprint analysis on #overshoot

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How many would choose to be #childfree if the decision to have a child were truly up to them, and not a product of pronatalist pressures at every level of family and culture? #pronatalism

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Helen Mirren on why she chooses #childfree

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Our new podcast episode is up! We explore with renowned scientist and historian Dr. Naomi Oreskes how free-market fundamentalism is undermining democracy, & how libertarian think tanks are fueling anti-Science propaganda. @NaomiOreskes @ErikMConway

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There are good reasons to adopt this diet. Preparing to feed 11 billion people not one of them. 11 billion will decimate ecosystems and exceed planetary boundaries. Stop looking for ways to feed 11 billion. Look for ways to never see 11 billion! #overpopulation

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We need a food system that doesn’t cost the Earth. This diet promises to save lives, feed a growing population and protect and support our planet. #EatLancet #FightForYourWorld

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Childfree actor, Helen Mirren...

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Sir David Attenborough, "I have no doubt that the fundamental source of *all* our problems, particularly our environmental problems, is population growth"

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How different would the world be if we embraced all creatures as family?

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In this season of giving, let us remember the joy that comes from connection with each other, with nonhumans, and with the natural world #buynothing

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"The rate of extinction ... is estimated to be a thousand times what it should be under natural selection. If this continues, ... one-fifth of all plant & animal species will be either extinct or endangered by 2030." Yet we keep adding more people!

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Our exposé in @NatCounterPunch of the latest pronatalist propaganda as seen in the new film Birthgap, the upcoming Natal conference & Orban’s “demographic” summit, featuring none other than Musk. @robertengelman @trixiefilms @nlinstitute @jensenrobertw

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The Rise of Pronatalism

There’s an insidious new tactic emerging for selling Right-wing ideology to wider audiences, evident in last month’s Budapest Demographic Summit for

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The focus on climate to the exclusion of biodiversity and all other environmental concerns has enabled the facile "consumption vs. population" argument, while fostering a harmful techno-optimism

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Opinion | Has Climate Change Blinded Us to the Biodiversity Crisis? (Published 2022)

We can’t fix biodiversity with decarbonization alone.

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Don't miss our latest podcast w/award-winning Ugandan journalist, advocate & newest PB board member @kyamageroandrew ! We explore how #patriarchy drives high fertility and harms girls & women, as well as Andrew's work engaging boys & men to confront it.

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Population Balance, @FairStartOrg & the Inst. for Humane Ed @HumaneEducation proudly bring you award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur from @WeAnimals on Feb 23rd @ 7pm ET for "Animals in the Anthropocene". Register here:

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We were wondering if it was possible for this ecologically illiterate man to do any more damage than he already has.. it seems that it is. If people listen to his nonsense, our species will further accelerate ecological collapse & the 6th mass extinction.

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Our ED Nandita Bajaj's piece in @MsMagazine 'Reproductive control thru' coercion has been associated w/ preventing ppl from reproducing; coercive pronatalism does the opposite by forcing us to reproduce.' @HumaneEducation @FairStartOrg @StablePlanetAll

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Abortion Bans Are a Natural Outgrowth of Coercive Pronatalism

Contemporary attacks on reproductive rights are motivated by many things. Chief among them is a penchant for coercion, hostility to women’s autonomy and self-determination, and a desire to enforce...

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This is the real story behind #India 's still-growing population of 1.4 billion: a culture of coercive pronatalism in which women have no say in how many children they have

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India’s growing population has become a burden for struggling mothers

India’s birth rate has fallen in recent years, except in the state of Bihar, where many people believe that having more children is considered a way to get more earning members for the family.

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"The human pathogenic diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive societal adaptations, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing GHG emissions"

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"Water scarcity is about to get a lot worse. Irrigated agriculture doesn’t have a plan." So maybe a good time to look at the demand side & consider that adding ever more people to an already overburdened planet is not such a good idea?

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Water scarcity is about to get a lot worse. Irrigated agriculture doesn’t have a plan.

Irrigation organizations play a crucial behind-the-scenes role in delivering water to farmers. But only 1 out of every 5 has an official strategy for responding to drought.

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Our peer-reviewed paper on coercive pronatalism is just out: Those who silence discussions about overpopulation "are themselves carrying water for pronatalist and patriarchal forces that insist women’s primary and inarguable function is to bear children."

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We’ve published a fascinating new fast track article in the Journal of Population and Sustainability: ‘Challenging Pronatalism Is Key to Advancing Reproductive Rights and a Sustainable Population'. Online here: #OpenAccess #population

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Would we have a #population problem at all if it were not for #pronatalism ? How else would our lives change if we had full reproductive autonomy & contraceptive access?

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A great insight, and wouldn't it be wonderful if @WWF and all organizations concerned with #wildlife , #climatechange , #biodiversity and #ecology were courageous enough to acknowledge it & act on it today.

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UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador @ashley_judd shares her powerful reasons for being #childfree . Choosing not to bring more people into overburdened #ecosystems and societies means we can take better care of those already here. #reproductiverights #pronatalism #coercivepronatalism

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Worldwide, for every vasectomy that happens, there are 20 tubal ligations. “The landscape in terms of reproductive equity and equality is not good,” says our friend @esgarmd , who is doing so much to make simple, quick vasectomies even more accessible

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Dr. Esgar Guarín Is Leading the Vasectomy Revolution

The numbers just make sense, says Dr. Esgar Guarín: “Men are the ones who are fertile every day from the moment they hit puberty until they die.”

www.instyle.com

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Our Communications Manager Kirsten Stade's response to a troubling trend on the Left, exemplified by @Matthuber78 writing in @jacobin

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Faces of pronatalism: religious leaders are often some of the worst offenders, propagating pronatalist values in the hopes of enriching their flock. Women in Italy and around the world are not having it.

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Pope Francis warns pets must not replace children in Italy

Pope Francis warns only the rich can afford to start a family, as Italy's birth rate hits new low.

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Rather than scheming about how to change low birth rates, why not embrace, adapt to, & enjoy them? Dr. Vegard Skirbekk, author of "Decline and Prosper! Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children" explains how! @vskirbekk

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Wanted 2 get a lot of attn w our #overpopulation billboard campaign. Seems we're getting a lot of negative attn 2day. Rather than answer every critique, we ask you to get the full story, which we stand by and are proud of, at

One Planet, One Child Billboard Campaign

We're celebrating small-family choices. Help expand nationwide this billboard campaign creating broader public awareness that the world is overpopulated, that the problem is solvable, and the...

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"I was told I was too young to make such a permanent decision, then told I should have a baby as if that was somehow less permanent. While I have many reasons for wanting to be #childfree , at the end of the day 'I don’t want to have kids' is reason enough"

24-year-old's sterilization photoshoot sparks conversation about women choosing child-free lives

'While I have many reasons for not wanting to get pregnant and wanting to be child-free, at the end of the day, 'I don't want to have kids' is reason enough and should be respected.'

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The inconvenient truth in #PlanetoftheHumans should not be missed while arguing over the movie's details #sustainability

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The Inconvenient Truth of Planet of the Humans

We’ve Gotten Way Too Big for Our Planet

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Our ED Nandita Bajaj in op-ed "This hardly seems the appropriate time to dismiss “population alarmism.” On the contrary, it’s time to confront the pernicious influence of #pronatalism on #PopulationGrowth , #HumanRights , & the #planet . @ICFP2022

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At Population Balance, challenging #pronatalism is one of our main pillars. Today, on #InternationalChildfreeDay , we are proud to feature the work of all our incredible #Childfree guests and supporters. Check out our page: and submit your own story!

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The world's dominant religions have been some of the biggest drivers of pronatalism and misogyny. What happens when the laws they demand infringe on the religious freedoms of other faiths?

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NYT: Alexandra Paul, "With a smaller population, we will not struggle for resources to provide food, water and housing for everyone; we will not contribute as much to climate change; we will live in harmony with nature and allow wildlife to thrive."

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Coercive pronatalism rears its head in doctors who refuse sterilization to women and men who ask for it.

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‘What if your future husband wants kids?’ One woman's struggle to be sterilized at 24

The leading OB-GYN group in the U.S. stresses the importance of "reproductive autonomy," but one woman told TODAY she was turned away when she ask to be sterilized.

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The excesses of the Anthropocene show the imperative of returning to a more ecocentric perspective, where our communities include the nonhuman web of life that surrounds us.

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"No amount of fear-mongering, shaming or invalidation can take away from the importance of the message - we are more than our reproductive choices." Hats off to @mariathattil for standing up to the pronatalist pressures that shame us for being #childfree

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Miss Universe Australia hits back at critics with perfect response for not wanting children

“It's not just okay to not aspire to parenthood, it is your human right”

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"It’s still partly pristine, but for how much longer? Palm oil plantations, we’re reminded, are leading the deforestation charge as habitat is squandered" Maybe time to wake up to the impact of our species on all the others?

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Our new podcast is up! We speak with @JeremyRLent , whose work weaves together science & traditional wisdom to dismantle the narrative that we are machines driven by selfishness & competition, & helps us realize our identity of deep interconnectedness

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"The contemplation of motherhood is never framed as a philosophical question. No, it’s all about women’s unruly bodies, and their failure to just shut up and do what’s best for the economy." #pronatalism @FairStartOrg @StablePlanetAll @PZInitiative

Why are women ‘failing’ to reproduce? Maybe it’s time to ask them | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Economic panic about the birthrate is drowning out the voices of those who matter most in this debate, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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44% of non-parents ages 18-49 say they are unlikely to have children someday, up 7% from 2018's survey. "I think not enough space is held for there to be more than one kind of definition of a woman," said one. #childfree

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Growing number of Millennial, Gen-Z women are childless by choice

Experts say choosing not to have children is becoming more socially accepted

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How do we solve #overpopulation ? Campaigns like this:

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"With the passage of time, the quality of life for those settled in Rawalpindi has dwindled due to over-population and scarcity of resources. Almost all basic needs like electricity, gas, pure water, transport, roads, ... are continuously going down"

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Another example of unquestioned #pronatalism glorifying parenthood: “To bring a child into this world has always been an act of hope.” @ezraklein @animalblawg @FairStartOrg @StablePlanetAll @BarnardPhoebe

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Our letter in the Guardian: "On a planet facing numerous ecological & social catastrophes, bemoaning a decline in national fertility rates is a reprehensible distraction." Thanks @kenanmalik & @guardian for the excellent coverage of coercive pronatalism ?

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Reproductive rights are under threat | Letters

Rightwing pressure on women to have more children has no place in a world facing ecological and social catastrophe

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The real reason they ban #abortion , wring their hands about low fertility, and pretend to care about "family."

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"The old adage that children are the future doesn’t have quite the same ring to it any longer." More and more people-even evangelicals-are questioning the ethics of bringing a child into this world

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The World Is Burning. Should We Have a Baby? | The Tyee

A new doc film explores a weighty question amidst climate crisis.

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@Prof_FSultana Reductionist arguments like this are extremely harmful in addressing what is one of the main drivers of unsustainable population growth - pronatalism - the pressures to procreate, which are far more pervasive & prevalent than any efforts to reduce births.

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Pronatalism comes w/ its own alarmist vocabulary, where "women and couples choosing smaller families" becomes a crisis. With accelerating #climate change, #biodiversity loss, wealth #inequality , & automation, lowered fertility is to be celebrated

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Thailand bids to avert 'population crisis' as birth rate crashes

Thailand is scrambling to encourage its people to have more babies to arrest a slumping birth rate, offering parents childcare and fertility centres, while also tapping social media influencers to...

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Our op-ed is out: The idea that population growth drives environmental decline & human suffering, once considered common sense, is now demonized as “eugenicist” - harming not only the planet but women, children, and the most vulnerable people

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Given the impact childbearing and parenting will have on every aspect of our lives, for the rest of our lives, shouldn't the decision be based on careful consideration of our own deepest desires & aptitudes?

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Honoring #WorldPopulationDay w/ the legendary @PaulREhrlich , who gives us a 50,000-ft view of humanity’s evolution over 300,000 yrs & the misunderstood & manufactured “normal” that now defines us: #overpopulation #overconsumption #ShrinkTowardAbundance

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As human population approaches 8 billion this month, 4 brave young women from around the world speak out on being #childfree . An inspiring new video series collaboration from Population Balance, @GirlPlanetEarth & @StablePlanetAll . Monique:

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We are setting ourselves up for failure with the widespread belief that we can simply "decarbonize" our current economy & way of life, and continue much as before. Our friend Dr. Bill Rees, father of ecological footprint analysis, tells it like it is.

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Actually, no. We are trying to leave children a planet worth inheriting. We hope to avoid sentencing them to lives of misery on a devastated planet. We're supporting informed decisions - freely made. No control, just information.

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Our LTE in @washingtonpost : "Instead of subsidizing fertility, governments must recognize finite resources and focus on maximizing individual well-being and dismantling the wealth inequality that stifles ingenuity and opportunity within marginalized communities." @StablePlanetAll

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Our ED Nandita Bajaj challenges Pope Francis' #pronatalist comments "reproductive autonomy is a hallmark of a liberated society. It’s neither a loss of humanity nor selfish." Thanks @ZosiaBielski @TrixieFilms @belladepaulo ! @StablePlanetAll @FairStartOrg

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Amplify: Pope Francis’s criticism of childless couples hurts parents and nonparents alike

In this issue of Amplify, Globe reporter Zosia Bielski looks at Pope Francis’s recent criticism of couples who choose not to have children, and why this type of messaging persists

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Shocking levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly we can alleviate the pressure, by reducing the amount of meat we eat. But its also clear that overall meat consumption is rising with the number of people on the planet (400,000 people born every day).

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The rise in world #population since 65,000 BC

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The choice to have or to forgo children is a privilege. We must abolish the simple and archaic attitude of pregnancy and raising children = good, whilst choosing not to have children = bad. #pronatalism ⁦ @PZInitiative ⁩ ⁦⁦⁦ @FairStartOrg ⁩

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You Wouldn’t Say This to Expecting Parents, so Why Say It to the Childfree?

Imagine responding to pregnancy news with “you’ll regret that!”

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#Childfree women are rejecting the equation of womanhood with #motherhood that our pronatalist society thrusts upon us. Join us in celebrating a few of them in a streaming and discussion of this great film @stableplanetall @TrixieFilms

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Why I chose a 'selfish' child-free life: 'No one asks parents why...

A new documentary titled "My So-Called Selfish Life" explores the scrutiny that childless women face.

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Our article in Newsweek: Technological climate fixes are favored by tech giants & big political donors, but they won't save us from catastrophic warming. Strategies like population stabilization, plant-based diets & ecosystem restoration potentially could

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Technology Won't Save Us From Global Warming, but This Just Might

Natural carbon capture through ecosystem restoration and better human choices can protect the climate better than technological fixes.

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The terrible tradeoffs we encounter when we focus only on technological fixes: copper, nickel, platinum are crucial components of #renewableenergy , but mining them causes ecological devastation. Small families, less consumption have no downsides

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Tension and trade-offs between protecting biodiversity and avoiding climate change

To combat climate change with clean energy technology, we need copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold and silver — a lot of them.

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James Dawes, in Open Global Rights, asks: " It is time to make ecocide an international crime?"

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It is time to make ecocide an international crime

“The time is right to harness the power of international criminal law to protect our global environment.”

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Many are choosing to be #childfree because they value personal independence. Instead of brainstorming how we can change their minds, let us celebrate choices that challenge relentless #pronatalism and enable us to shrink toward abundance

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All over the planet we are seeing ever more scarcity of natural resources driven by a rising number of our species, and our rising needs & demands.

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More than 1/3 of 50 surveyed Nobel laureates cited “ #population rise/ #environmental degradation” as the biggest threat to humankind.

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Unrestrained anthropocentrism has led to this: “The human-environment relationship must drastically change to avoid catastrophic tipping points whereby the human power of exploitation is overwhelmed by the power of nature.”

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Vasectomy prevents #abortion

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"Instead of shaming childless women for what they're doing to the country, you should be thanking us. We are saving society. We are more likely to give our money to charity, we have a lower carbon footprint..." Great monologue from @chelseahandler on the joys of being #childfree

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There are millions of women who don't want children, so why are they being shamed by society? @chelseahandler tackles being childless by choice in a new #LongStoryShort

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Our op-ed in response to @UNFPA 's State of World #Population Report, and as #India reaches 1.4 billion: The report "is wrong to dismiss 'population anxiety' as groundless & assert that 'population sizes are neither good nor bad.'"

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@ClimateDad77 It is both. Those bottom 90% want the same comforts enjoyed by the wealthy; allowing them to control their fertility allows them to live in comfort without vastly increasing overshoot. Humans at lower emission levels have huge impacts on biodiversity, water, etc etc.

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"The combined greenhouse gas emission of the richest 1% is more than twice of the poorest 50%" The great fallacy of the "consumption, not #population " argument is the assumption that the poorest 50% want to remain that way.

Overconsumption created three-fold planetary emergency of climate change, biodiversity loss and...

Kevadia (Gujarat), October 20 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said overconsumption has resulted in a three-fold planetary emergency of climate change, biodiversity loss...

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We are excited to announce that World Population Balance is now Population Balance, with a new website, logo, and vision!

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Low fertility alarmism ignores the benefits of low fertility for women, children, & the planet - and the ways we can care for seniors without pressuring women to procreate. Tune in with @VSkirbekk on why we should embrace a declining birth rate

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It's about time every state and every country made birth control and sterilization free and accessible for everyone. It's a no-brainer: for every $1 spent on #contraception , $7 are saved

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Want a free vasectomy? California could soon have you covered

A proposed law would slash costs for male sterilization and give women free access to over-the-counter birth control, including condoms.

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"Subsidy programs push farmers to overproduce fattening feed grains like corn & soy — giving companies that handle livestock access to grain at below the cost of production. Our irrational food subsidy system is harming our health, animals, & the planet

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"The biggest driver of falling birth rates is education, especially for girls." Among other things, education empowers young women to see through the attempts at brainwashing by #pronatalism at every level of most cultures

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Our Comms Mgr. Kirsten Stade in @MsMagazine #WPD2022 "A biological pull, no matter how powerful, is not an imperative....we do ourselves a disservice when we declare our powerlessness to exercise discernment over one of life's most consequential choices."

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After decades of dire warnings and scientific findings, it is clear that humanity must finally confront the myths and taboos that are holding us back from addressing our #population crisis. #8billion

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Hello World of 8 Billion! - The Overpopulation Project

On November 15th the world population reaches 8 billion people. Read about the consequences this may have and possible solutions.

overpopulation-project.com

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This article in Down to Earth tries desperately to find the reasons behind drought in Madagascar. What it fails to identify is that the human population of Madagascar doubled to 28 million in just 22 years. No wonder they have outstripped the supply.

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Our impact on Earth, as a species, is wide ranging. The use of leaf blowers not only creates noise pollution, causing stress for your neighbors & wildlife; but blowing all those leaves away also disturbs vital habitat & the natural ecosystem.

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When the water demands of your population become so large that you consider 'diverting the Great Lakes', surely it's time to consider that there may just be too many people, demanding too much?

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This is very much needed in the fight against climate change: but we hope people don't get the impression it can be solved by technology alone. We also need to reduce consumption, by consuming less each & reducing the number of consumers (our population)

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"The experience of bringing a new human life into the world is profound, and to make it involuntary is monstrous." #abortion #ReproductiveRights

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The arguments about abortion in the US are about one thing: controlling women | Rebecca Solnit

Anti-abortionists are intent on enhancing men’s privileges, while women cannot even have rights over their own bodies, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

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Throwing money at people to raise birth rates to provide a temporary fix to quality of life problems whose root cause is ecological collapse brought about by high birth rates

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Will Japan's new plan to boost birth rates work?

The Japanese government is planning to offer couples extra money for having children, but with costs rising steeply and wages static, that is unlikely to be an adequate incentive, say experts.

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The US has pledged 9bn USD to “stop and reverse deforestation and land degradation” by 2030. By 2030 we'll have added another half a billion human consumers to the Earth. It would be much more effective to put that money into family planning programmes.

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The idea that ever more young people are needed to support the economy or the old is an unsustainable ponzi scheme. Those young people grow old &, in a crazy growth model, require more young people to support them! On a finite planet, where does that end?

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#FamilyPlanning saves #wildlife , reduces #ClimateChange , improves human well-being. We'd love for more #conservation orgs like @WWF to actively promote it.

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So many women and men know from an early age that they want to remain #childfree , and their desires to avoid the pain, risk, and consequences of a pregnancy are thwarted by pronatalism. #Vasectomy should be free and on demand.

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While young people are often warned they may regret not having children, seldom do we hear how much we may regret having them. In our new podcast episode, Israeli sociologist Dr. Orna Donath discusses her groundbreaking work on this topic

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Remembering Haydn Washington, writing here with the outstanding Helen Kopnina about the #population denialism that obstructs our ability to live within the Earth's carrying capacity

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We are punished when we conceive, ostracized for being #childfree . What would it be like to live in a world where we are celebrated for our reproductive choices that are solely our own, and not coerced by #pronatalist expectations? @laurenosandler @StablePlanetAll

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As women choose fewer children, a new wave of pronatalist propaganda blames them for declining fertility. Filmmaker Therese Shechter @TrixieFilms & our ED Nandita Bajaj discuss in our interview with LeNora Faye @glassviolin , host of @ChildfreeCon

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The proportion of those asserting “I don’t need to have a child even if I get married” surged from 46.4 % in 2018 to 53.5 % last year, painting a stark picture of changing priorities among the younger generation.

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Korea Faces Record-Low Fertility Rate of 0.70 in Second Quarter, Raising Alarming Demographic...

Asian Community News (ACN) is an India-based global News-Media agency for Japanese, Korean, other East Asian communities around the world.

www.asiancommunitynews.com

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