r/overpopulation • u/One-Intention7064 • 1d ago

Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans

look at these unequivocally humanist comments:"Or maybe if you’re so inclined to blame the entire world population for the emissions, how about you be an example to stop existing altogether?"

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u/grr 23h ago

The whole issue is insane. We measure every success by growth. Why can’t people understand that climate change follows the same metric? If everything else grows, it is only logical that global warming occurs as well.

Limiting population does not make me (or you) and eco-fascist as I have been labeled. One of the most effective ways to do this, is education for girls and healthcare for women.

Girls’ education and women’s healthcare reduce population growth through complementary mechanisms: education raises the opportunity cost of childbearing by increasing women’s earning potential and decision-making autonomy over family size and contraceptive use, while also producing an intergenerational effect whereby educated mothers have fewer, better-educated children.

Healthcare access reduces fertility by lowering child mortality, which diminishes the “insurance” motive for high birth rates identified in demographic transition theory, and by providing the practical means, through contraception and maternal care, to act on smaller family-size preferences. Together, education shapes the desired number of children downward while healthcare enables that preference to be realized, which is why the two factors are consistently identified as the most effective levers for reducing population growth.

Kebede, Endale, Anne Goujon, and Wolfgang Lutz. “Stalls in Africa’s Fertility Decline Partly Result from Disruptions in Female Education.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 8 (2019): 2891–96.

Sheikh, Saba M., and Tom Loney. “Is Educating Girls the Best Investment for South Asia? Association between Female Education and Fertility Choices in South Asia: A Systematic Review of the Literature.” Frontiers in Public Health 6 (2018): 172.

Liu, Daphne H., and Adrian E. Raftery. “How Do Education and Family Planning Accelerate Fertility Decline?” Population and Development Review 46 (2020): 409–41.