AlterNet: Going Green Means Having Fewer Kids
“The single most concrete, substantive thing a young American could do is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius,” Revkin said. “It’s having fewer kids.”
But this is just a thought exercise, he cautions, and no model for the kind of official policy most Americans would want to live with. A recent study, though, by the London School of Economics and the British-based Optimum Population Trust, suggests meeting the world’s unmet need for access to reproductive health would be the most effective and cheapest way to start dramatically cutting carbon dioxide.