Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment
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 l...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7236434212fd49a0bf3335e532235ce02023-11-18T13:06:59ZengMDPI AGWorld2673-40602023-05-014225928710.3390/world4020018Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the EnvironmentJ. Joseph Speidel0Jane N. O’Sullivan1School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USASchool of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, AustraliaDriven 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/2/18population growthreproductive justicedemographyfamily planningreproductive healthcontraception |
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| title | Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment |
| title_full | Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment |
| title_fullStr | Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment |
| title_short | Advancing the Welfare of People and the Planet with a Common Agenda for Reproductive Justice, Population, and the Environment |
| title_sort | advancing the welfare of people and the planet with a common agenda for reproductive justice population and the environment |
| topic | population growth reproductive justice demography family planning reproductive health contraception |
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