“Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no children. The lifetime CO2 emissions of a UK citizen amount to 750 tonnes (the equivalent - apparently - of 620 return flights between London and New York), so the extra 10 million by which our population will rise between now and 2074 will, over their lifetimes, emit around 7½ billion tonnes of CO2..."births averted" is probably the most single most substantial and cost-effective intervention that governments could be using”
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Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt is a renowned British environmentalist and writer. Born on July 6, 1950, he has been committed to promoting global environmental sustainability since the 1980s. Porritt has served as an environmental advisor to the British government and held key positions in various international and non-governmental organizations, such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Friends of the Earth. He has also authored several books on environmental issues and has been a global advocate for the concept of sustainable development. more