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Alice Rush

Here’s what Santa Monica (CA)-based environmentalist Zan Dubin wrote to the editor of the Los Angeles Time in response to an article on income and childbearing, which includes: “What largely remains overlooked, however, is the abject failure of America’s political elite to protect the country’s middle-class standard of living.”

Zan responds:

I was glad to see a prominent article giving voice to those who choose to be child-free.

However, falling birthrates were described as a negative trend because of economic concerns. Why not quote scientists or environmentalists who have different concerns or see the upside to this complex situation?

The title of this 2022 study in the journal Biological Conservation says it all: “Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left.”

In a March 2023 article in Scientific American, Harvard professor Naomi Oreskes approvingly quotes the Royal Society: “More people ‘has meant that ever more natural habitat is being used for agriculture, mining, industrial infrastructure and urban areas.’ ”

In a 2013 interview, David Attenborough said, “All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder — and ultimately impossible — to solve with ever more people.”

Income, Child-Bearing, and Population

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