Slow the growth, save the world? Why declining birth rates need not mean an end to prosperity

Image caption: ‘We need to normalise that we’re living through a climate emergency … we’re living through the breakdown of the natural world,’ one campaigner says. Image credit: Ben Sanders / The Guardian. Article by Tory Shepherd. The Guardian – August 17, 2024.

Political leaders fret about the ‘fertility crisis’. That’s nonsense, experts say. There’s a desperate need for population shrinkage

We’re taking things from the people of the future now,” Mary Heath says from the kitchen where she’s drying seeds to plant. The climate activist is talking about Earth Overshoot Day, the ominous annual milestone that marks when humanity has consumed more from the Earth than the Earth can replenish in a year. […]

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