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Publication Info: https://doi.org/10.3390/world4020018
Date of Publication: May 6
Year of Publication: 2023
Publication City: Basel, Switzerland
Publisher: MDPI
Author(s): J. Joseph Speidel , Jane N. O’Sullivan
Journal: World
Volume: 4
Pages: 259–287
Full Title: Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment
Abstract
Driven by increasing consumption and population numbers, human demands are depleting natural resources essential to support human life, causing damage to crop lands, fresh water supplies, fisheries, and forests, and driving climate change. Within this century, world population could increase by as little as 15% or by more than 50%, depending largely on how we respond. We must face the challenge of accommodating these additional people at the same time as virtually eliminating the use of fossil fuels and other activities that generate greenhouse gases, reversing environmental degradation and supporting improved living standards for billions of impoverished people. The response to this challenge is handicapped by a lack of common understanding and an integrated agenda among those contributing to the response. This report offers a strategy to protect natural systems and improve welfare through expansion of reproductive justice, a concept that includes family planning, reproductive health, and gender equity, and preservation of the environment and climate.
population growth; reproductive justice; demography; family planning; reproductive health; contraception; overpopulation; biodiversity; food security; climate change adaptation and mitigation; environmental sustainability
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