revolutionofconsciousness:

mohandasgandhi:

Earlier this year, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched 7 Billion Actions, a campaign to highlight positive actions by individuals and organizations addressing global development challenges. By sharing these innovations in an open forum, the campaign aims to foster communication and collaboration as the planet becomes more populated and increasingly interdependent.

Addressing global population growth is not the same thing as “controlling population.” The most direct and immediate way to lower birth rates is to make sure that as high a proportion as possible of pregnancies are intended, by assuring that women can make their own choices about whether and when to bear a child.

Simultaneously, we need to rapidly transform our energy, water, and materials consumption through greater use of conservation, efficiency, and green technologies. We shouldn’t think of these as sequential efforts – dealing with consumption first, then waiting for population dynamics to turn around – but rather as simultaneous tasks on multiple fronts.

Worldwatch recommends two main approaches to mitigate the impacts of a soaring global population:

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Allowing women to have control over their bodies and pregnancies doesn’t just entail the right to abortion but the right to an education and the right to easy access to a range of safe, effective, and affordable contraceptive methods and the information and counseling needed to use them.

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