Through a series of essays by leading demographers,
environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, "A Pivotal
Moment" offers a new perspective on the complex connection between
population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the
latest research on the relationship between population growth and
climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It
surveys the new demographic landscape--in which population growth
rates have fallen, but human numbers continue to increase. It looks
back at the lessons learned from half a century of population
policy--and forward to propose twenty-first century population
policies that are sustainable and just.
"A Pivotal Moment "puts forth the concept of "population
justice," which is inspired by reproductive justice and
environmental justice movements. Population justice holds that
inequality is a root cause of "both "rapid population growth and
environmental degradation. As the authors in this volume explain,
to slow population growth and build a sustainable future, women and
men need access to voluntary family planning and other reproductive
health services. They need education and employment opportunities,
especially for women. Population justice means tackling the deep
inequities--both gender and economic--that are associated with
rapid population growth and unsustainable resource consumption.
Where family planning is available, where couples are confident
their children will survive, where girls go to school, where young
men and women have economic opportunity--there couples will have
healthier "and smaller" families.
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