For the Love of Our Children: a poem by Esther Phillips
Environmental activist and poet Esther Phillips reflects on grief and anti-natalism in this poem, which explores the choice not to have children as an act of love in an age of collapse.
Population
The most appropriate response to falling birthrates? Embrace them
As governments push costly pronatalist schemes to boost birthrates, the real solution, argues Nandita Bajaj, is to embrace declining fertility, expand women’s reproductive agency, and redesign economies for equity and ecological survival.
Nandita Bajaj: Confronting patriarchy, pronatalism, and population denial
Nandita Bajaj, executive director of Population Balance, defies stereotypes. She chose not to have children and has dedicated her life to research and advocacy on how pronatalism, overpopulation, and human supremacy fuel social inequality and ecological overshoot, and to confronting tough questions about humanity’s outsized footprint on Earth.
Falling human fertility can’t be reversed by cheerleading for motherhood
Concern about a surprise acceleration in the decline of human fertility is missing the most critical factor.
Your order, please?
What if we presented possible options for future human developments—let’s say human population as a solid example—and pretend it’s a menu from which we get to choose.
Are we missing something about the coming population decline?
As predictions about world population decline proliferate, the causes almost never include the toxic chemicals that are dramatically undermining human fertility worldwide.
Path to extinction? Sperm count accelerates its decline
Humans could disappear from planet Earth without even a whimper, that is, the whimper of new babies as the human sperm count keeps plummeting.
Human extinction: Are we already too late?
A prominent paleontologist and evolutionary biologist thinks that humans are headed toward extinction soon and that nothing will stop it from happening.
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?
When someone says that humans are on a course to extinction, it elicits a yawn from most people. Epidemiologist Shanna Swan has projected the date it will begin and can tell you exactly why
Do we have room for a billion Americans?
A prominent journalist is pushing the idea that the United States embark on a program to triple its population. He completely ignores the environmental implications.
Resources for a Better Future: Population
As stated in A Renewed Call for Feminist Resistance to Population Control, we call for ways in which climate change can be tackled at the same time that we challenge racism and social injustice, including issues of sexual and reproductive health.
The Population Problem Problem
So while as individuals, as consumers, as parents or as non-parents, we agonize and sermonize over our own and others’ lifestyle choices, the oil companies will keep lobbying, and the GDP and emissions lines will keep tracking upwards until we reach a point of reckoning when the size of the human population or how many children anyone has will be the last of our concerns.
