The long silence has been broken!
9 to 10:15 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, August 9, 2017
A free GrowthBusters webinar with Andrew Gaines discussing the Great Transition Initiative
REGISTER HERE
News stories, public dialogue and conversations among friends are now taking place. Couples are considering climate change and other sustainability issues when they think about whether to start a family, or whether to conceive a second child.
We’re hearing about the subject on National Public Radio in the U.S., Bill Nye Saves the World on Netflix, and Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO. Perhaps you’ve read the stories in Forbes, New Scientist or Popular Science.
This is a breakthrough, though many don’t realize how important this is in the (over)developed world, where fertility rates are already below replacement rate. We’ll fully explore it in the upcoming GrowthBusters webinar, Fewer Children: A Moral Responsibility (August 9).
Bioethicist Travis Rieder deserves a lot of credit for this positive development, and will be joining GrowthBusters’ Dave Gardner as the featured guest of the upcoming webinar along with Madeleine Somerville (you may remember her from our December webinar, Solving Overshoot), and Kaitlyn Hickmann (GrowthBusters’ college intern and webinar co-producer).
Rieder wrote the short book, Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation, and co-authored the paper, Population Engineering and the Fight Against Climate Change.
Madeleine Somerville penned the book All You Need Is Less: A Guilt-Free Guide to Eco-Friendly Green Living and Stress-Free Simplicity. She also wrote the All You Need is Less column for the UK Guardian.
Join us August 9 at 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Register here.
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