We’re counting down the Top 10 Reasons to Choose a Small Family. Reason #7: We’re currently adding about 9,000 people to the planet every hour. This adds up to roughly 80 million every year. On World Population Day, July 11, we’ll reveal the number one reason to choose a small family.

We know the scale of human activity on Earth passed into overshoot several decades ago. The coming crises are so severe we must make drastic changes in both our consumption and our reproductive behavior.  We can humanely and voluntarily get world population back to a sustainable level within a century, if we are genuinely committed to it.  What we lack is the will to acknowledge the problem and to strongly recommend to all our children that they limit the size of their family.

The current population level and state of overshoot are two very good reasons to choose to have no children, or perhaps just one. Even stopping at two will help. Adoption is a good option for those who desire more.

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Dave Gardner
Director of the documentary
GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth