Go Green Radio

According to Laurie Mazur’s new book, “A Pivotal Moment”… “3 billion people -- nearly half the world’s population – are under the age of 25. The reproductive choices made by these 3 billion young women and men will effectively decide whether total world population is 8 billion or 10.5 billion in the year 2050. The difference of 2.5 billion people is profound for many reasons. Population growth rates remain high where poverty and gender inequality are most intractable. Where women are denied education, secure livelihoods, property ownership and the full legal and social rights of citizenship, they are forced to rely on childbearing for survival, status, and security. Our planet is already signaling human-induced ecological impoverishment and collapse, and while slowing population growth down sufficiently to achieve the lower number of people (8 billion) by 2050 is not a complete panacea for easing pressure on the environment, it will make the challenge easier.”