Right here’s what Santa Monica (CA)-based environmentalist Zan Dubin wrote to the editor of the Los Angeles Time in response to an article on revenue and childbearing, which incorporates: “What largely stays neglected, nevertheless, is the abject failure of America’s political elite to guard the nation’s middle-class way of life.”
Zan responds:
I used to be glad to see a distinguished article giving voice to those that select to be child-free.
Nevertheless, falling birthrates have been described as a unfavorable development due to financial considerations. Why not quote scientists or environmentalists who’ve totally different considerations or see the upside to this advanced state of affairs?
The title of this 2022 research within the journal Organic Conservation says all of it: “Overpopulation is a serious explanation for biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are essential to protect what’s left.”
In a March 2023 article in Scientific American, Harvard professor Naomi Oreskes approvingly quotes the Royal Society: “Extra individuals ‘has meant that ever extra pure habitat is getting used for agriculture, mining, industrial infrastructure and concrete areas.’ ”
In a 2013 interview, David Attenborough mentioned, “All our environmental issues change into simpler to resolve with fewer individuals, and more durable — and finally unimaginable — to resolve with ever extra individuals.”
