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SAVING THE WORLD – ONE LESS CHILD AT A TIME
No amount of composting and recycling, even ditching the car and going vegan, makes up for the chubby carbon footprint of having a child. Every new human is the equivalent of 58.6 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. Meanwhile we add around 200,000 more people a day to the world’s already groaning 7.7 billion. So why aren’t birthstrikers and one-child families being applauded? Sharon Stephenson investigates.
By Sharon Stephenson.
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