Population:

8 Billion People – One Humanity

(Episode 68 – Part 2)

8, 000 MILLION PEOPLE + ONE

8 Billion Humans? Population a Difficult Conversation, but we Need to Start Getting Real | NewsClickIt’s time to rethink our broken and unfair family planning systems.

Overpopulation: Cause and Effect | Population Media Center

Infographic: Outpacing Earth's carrying capacityOur activities disrupt other species and change our climate, and we are using resources faster than Earth can replenish them.

www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Worldometer - real time world statistics
Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more.

World population 2022 | Population clock live - Countrymeters.

As of 1 January 2022, the population of the world was estimated to be 7,948,118,521. This is an increase of 1.23 % (96,954,665 people) compared to population of ...

World Population Clock Live

https://www.theworldcounts.com › state-of-the-planet

The population of the world today is about 215,000 people larger than yesterday. The world population clock shows you in real time how fast it's actually ...

World Population GrowthWhen and why did the world population grow? And how does rapid population growth come to an end?

Why do we Find Babies Cute?

There are powerful nurturing instincts as to why humans find babies so cute – particularly for our own children.

Human babies come into the world utterly helpless and remain dependent on their parents for many years. Our babies are cleverly – if unknowingly – ensuring that they stay alive.

Interestingly, newborns are rated ‘less cute’ than older babies. Adults find the faces of babies most appealing at around the six-month mark. And at what age do babies stop being irresistibly adorable? Age 4 ½.

For humans, this attraction spills over to cute animals also. Kittens, puppies, and all manner of other species. Sadly, a study published last year found that ‘ugly’ animals are at risk of extinction because they don’t attract as much research and conservation funding.

There is a science and an art to cuteness. One that marketers use to manipulate us – kind of like babies do!

Conceivable Future is a women-led network of Americans bringing awareness to the threat climate change poses to our reproductive lives, and demanding an end to US fossil fuel subsidies.

Conceivable Future

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT (pronounced vehement) for short. Despite the drastic-sounding title, the organisation welcomes those whose end goal isn’t necessarily human extinction, along with parents who have come around to the VHEMT perspective to some degree. The organisation’s literature is rational and often humorous in tone.

They don’t call for human extinction – even in jest – but they do campaign against population growth which, it says, contributes to environmental degradation, resource depletion, poverty and inequality.

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is a movement not an organization. It’s a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We’re not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.

VHEMT

Phasing out the human species by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages ...

Child Less or Child Free?

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The Childfree Connection | Online Childfree CommunityThe Childfree Connection is a global community of like-minded women who inspire, support and celebrate each other’s choice to be child-free. As a childfree couple, we aim to help and connect people globally. Our signature program, The Ultimate Guide to Embracing a Childfree Life, covers fear of regr

Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – studySurvey of 600 people finds some parents regret having offspring for same reason

The Climate Challenge of the World's Population Hitting 8 Billion"Population growth is the elephant in the room for climate change," writes Eugene Linden.

Child-Free Celebrities

17 Celebrities Speak Out About Being Child-Free by ChoiceBecause they haven't “changed their minds later.”

12 celebrities who have opened up about their choice to not have kidsParenting is not the right path for everyone. These celebrities have opened up about their decisions not to have children for various reasons.

GINK's: Green Inclinations, No Kids

Are You a GINK? The Case for "Green Inclinations, No Kids" - A\JFrom San Antonio to Singapore, couples and singles are considering their environmental impact in a personal way. These environmental do-gooders shop organic, buy biodegradable detergents and drive hybrid cars. Yet when it comes to reproduction, some don’t think twice. When popular articles today talk about “green sex,” they are usually […]

Women's rights are the right way to approach the population issueSuzanne Ehlers, president of Population Action International.Suzanne Ehlers, the new 36-year-old president of Population Action International, likes to talk about “the magic of family planning.” If you give women around the world contraceptive tools and information, they’ll limit the size of their families of their own free choice, and that makes their families healthier, wealthier, […]

How green are the 'childless by choice'?Laura S. Scott has surveyed and interviewed more than 170 people for her Childless by Choice Project. “I’m keenly interested in the process of decision-making,” she says. “How do we get from assuming parenthood for ourselves to the point where we’re saying, ‘No kids, thank you!’?” She shares what she’s learned in a new book, […]

Exploring How and WHY We Make the choice to Remain ChildfreeA research project, book, and documentary about about couples choosing a life without kids! Created by Laura S. Scott

Nearly a fifth of American women skip childbearingAlmost 20 percent of American women end up going childfree, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. In 2008, 18 percent of women reached ages 40 to 44 without having borne a child, compared to just 10 percent in 1976. “The fact that nearly one of five women does not have a […]

Hundreds join teen-led pledge not to have kids until climate change is addressedHundreds of teens are pledging to not have children until the government addresses climate change. Eighteen-year-old Emma Lim, from London, Ontario, Canada, launched the #NoFutu…

Forced Sterilization is More Common Than You Think

Forced Sterilization as a Human Rights Violation: Recent DevelopmentsIn recent years, international advocacy has contributed to increased awareness of forced sterilization as a human rights violation, including as a result of our work at the International Justice Re…

'Incomprehensible' that forced sterilizations still happen in Canada, says survivor | CBC RadioA new senate report calls for the criminalization of forced and coerced sterilization in Canada. It found the practice is more prevalent than reported, and isn't confined to the past, but continues today.

31 states have laws that allow forced sterilizations, new report showsA new report from the National Women’s Law Center lays out the laws around an overlooked aspect of reproductive justice.

Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st centuryThe US has a long history of forced sterilization campaigns that were driven by the bogus 'science' of eugenics, racism and sexism.

Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change? For some climate activists, the personal decision to have a child is also fraught with moral consequences: the negative impact on the environment, and on the quality of life for those children.

Should We Be Bringing Children Into Our Dying World?It was a 2018 New York Times article that would change Allie Seroussi’s life forever. The piece, titled Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change, was a historical narrative about the decade — 1979 to 1989 — when scientists first came to understand the climate emergency. What she read scared her; scarred her, even. So much so that she decided she’d never try to have a child of her own.

Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?“While gestating my son, and probably every day since, I have wondered whether having children is, in itself, an ecologically sound or unsound decision...”

The ethics of having children in the age of climate change | The Week UKInternational survey finds one in four young people ‘hesitant’ about starting families amid global warming fears

Would you give up having children to save the planet? Meet the couples who haveThe environmental toll of having even one child is enormous - 58.6 tonnes of carbon each year. So is going child-free the answer to our climate crisis?

Opinion | Kids are bad for Earth. To save it, we must stop having themWe need to stop pretending kids don't have environmental and ethical consequences.

Why millennials are skipping babies in order to save the planetAs Prince Harry reveals he and Meghan Markle will have a maximum of two children, we ask is having less children the answer to climate change? Laura Hampson investigates

Should we stop having children in order to be truly sustainable and save the planet?Should we stop having children if we wish to be truly sustainable and save the planet? Are we too many on earth? Let's take a look.

Children, Your Greatest [carbon] Legacy

Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individualsMuch attention has been paid to the ways that people’s home energy use, travel, food choices and other routine activities affect their emissions of ca…

Reproduction and the carbon legacies of ... - ResearchGate...

Jul 5, 2022 — Here we estimate the extra emissions of fossil carbon dioxide that an average individual causes when he or she chooses to have children.

Having children is an expectation, not a decisionA woman’s value is often linked to motherhood. Women who claim no desire to be a mother are looked down upon.

More women are choosing not to have kids, and society can't cope - ABC EverydayWomen who choose not to have children are often labelled selfish, shallow and immature. But an increasing number are not having kids because of the ridiculous standards around motherhood.

This Is Why I'm Never Having Children, Despite Everyone Thinking I ShouldLike most little girls, I always imagined growing up, getting married and starting a family. At a young age, I became infatuated with wedding dresses. I picked out first and middle names for my hypothetical kids and even decided on the ages when I…

The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting (Published 2018)Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

Why am I expected to have children just because I’m a woman?Broadside: Not all women are programmed with maternal instinct. Motherhood is not for me

The Myth of Motherhood: The Way Unrealistic Social Expectations of Mothers Shape Their Experience - Dr. Michal Regev - Registered Psychologist & Registered Marriage and Family TherapistIt is usually a very happy occasion when a baby is born. but with the baby, come many expectations of the parents and, especially, the mother. aside from the obvious basic care such as feeding, changing diapers and bathing, there are many other expectations. for...

Population: Never Part of the Discussion

Environmentalists Need To Talk About Population Growth. Here’s How.On November 15, the world population is projected to reach 8 billion people. As we approach that milestone, there’s no denying that our rapidly growing human population also places extraordinary [...]

What Are Environmental Problems Due to Population Growth?Population growth, especially exponential population growth, results in rapid depletion of resources that leads to environmental problems like deforestation, climate change and decreasing biodiversity.

Population growth - Understanding Global Change

Population growth, environmental degradation and climate change | United NationsMore than a third of 50 recently surveyed Nobel laureates cited “population rise / environmental degradation” as the biggest threat to humankind. 

Population and Environment — A Complex RelationshipDoes the simultaneous occurrence of population growth and environmental decline over the past century indicate that more people translate into greater environmental degradation?

Population and environment: a global challengeMany people worry that population growth will eventually cause an environmental catastrophe. However, the problem is bigger and more complex than just counting bodies.

Overpopulation: Cause and Effect | Population Media Center

Ideas for Stabilizing Human Population

Growing Global Overpopulation and Migration are Destabilizing our World - MAHBOur Future Predictions Overpopulation is the mother of all evils today. From it springs all the ills and destabilization we encounter in our society. The ominous words of the 18th century philosopher Thomas Mathus is beginning to ring more and more true as time goes on. In an essay [1] on what he saw as […]

Solutions to overpopulation and what you can do - MAHBHere at The Overpopulation Project, we try to keep a positive outlook. Although many environmental trends are grim, there exist clear paths forward toward a more sustainable world: one where people steward resources for the future and share habitat and resources generously with other species. Recently, a correspondent wrote challenging us to identify solutions to the demographic […]

Human Population and Demographics: Can Stabilizing Population Help Stabilize Climate?ECSP's breakout session at the National Council for Science and the Environment's (NCSE) 2008 National Conference explores how programs to improve reproductive health, family planning, natural resource management, and sustainable livelihoods can help mitigate climate change.

Needed: Support for Women's Reproductive Health Care

A Time for Change: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in a New Global EraOne year since the global spread of COVID-19 began, the seismic disruptions that the pandemic has provoked are well documented: overburdened health systems, intensifying inequities, heightened political polarization and more. It is now clear that the pandemic has potentially set back global health efforts by decades, including when it comes to sexual and reproductive health and rights.1

Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low

Jul 28, 2020 — Unmet needs for services are greatest in the poorest countries. For example, only 59% of women in low-income countries deliver their babies in a ...

Protect U.S. International Family Planning and Reproductive Health ProgramsOpponents of birth control don’t just want to limit access in the U.S., they want to slash U.S. support for international family planning.

CARE Report Reveals UN and Wealthy Nations’ Lack of Funding for Women in EmergenciesTime for a Better Bargain: How the Aid  System Shortchanges Women and Girls in Crisis  appraises top government donors and UN agencies on financing women’s rights and women-led organizations in countries experiencing humanitarian crises and ensuring participation in leadership

UNFPA: $835 million needed for ‘lifesaving’ reproductive healthcare in crisis settingsLife-saving sexual and reproductive health services are more vital than ever, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said on Monday, launching an $835 million appeal to support people in crisis settings during 2022.

Women’s Health in the U.S. and Abroad: What Donors Should KnowLearn about women's health issues in the U.S. and around the world. Donors can find information on addressing racial equity, maternal health, and more.

Female Education and Empowerment