Equal Rights For Women Everywhere Could Save Civilization
Humanely lowering birth rates via societal female empowerment is the key to preventing a total collapse, Stanford population biologists claim. Population biologists Paul R. and Anne Ehrlich have been beating the overcrowding drum for nearly five decades, claiming that the human population's mushrooming size is too large for the continued health of the species and the planet. Now the couple has a new thematic review of the sorry state of our world, and they suggest a plan for how to avoid a total collapse of civilization. The keystone of their argument: Giving women equal rights worldwide is a crucial first step in the preservation of our species. The key reason is that when women have greater rights, they have fewer children. Rights include ready access to birth control and emergency abortion, but they also include greater access to education and nutrition. This could be a humane way to reduce the world's expected...