Op-Ed: The complex link between population decline and a warming planet (via latimesopinion)
that exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals, like phthalates , play a role in disrupting fertility., with fewer partners, and are having sex for the first time at later ages compared with earlier generations. Some applaud this change for reducing teen pregnancy in the U.S. But it could signal a waning desire to have children on a warming planet.
These very real social and environmental problems have intensified as population growth rates have declined. This alone demonstrates that stabilizing population size isn’t a panacea. Social and environmental problems won’t solve themselves, regardless of the number of people on Earth.Jade S. Sasser is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. She is the author of “On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change.”
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