Finding the best ways to do good.
In 2017, climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas coauthored a study trying to answer this question: What are the most effective changes you can make to your lifestyle if you want to reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet?
She found that for individuals in high-emitting countries, choices like flying less, driving less, and eating less meat are all helpful. But there’s another lifestyle choice that is much more effective over the long term: having fewer kids.
Yet in her new book,
Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas says that if you really want to be a parent, you should go ahead and have kids anyway.
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Readers respond to an article by Polly Toynbee about population decline
‘Would it be so disastrous for it to fall back to something approaching the population level of our grandparents’ era?’ asks Kathleen Roberts. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
‘Would it be so disastrous for it to fall back to something approaching the population level of our grandparents’ era?’ asks Kathleen Roberts. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
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Polly Toynbee’s view of our demographic changes is disappointingly shortsighted and narrow (Britain’s falling birthrate will damage our society – and it’s not just Covid to blame, 20 April). Of course we should be concerned if economic policies are pricing some people out of childbearing, but that shouldn’t blind us to the very real advantages of fewer people.
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Do You Think You Make Good Climate Choices?
Do you consider the climate impact of the food you eat, the things you buy, the appliances you use and the way you travel?
Credit.Ka Young Lee
April 8, 2021
This Student Opinion prompt will help prepare students to participate in our live panel discussion about climate change, on April 22 at 1 p.m. Eastern. Learn more
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Do you consider the climate impact of the food you eat, the things you buy, the appliances you use and the way you travel? Do you know which activities contribute most to your carbon footprint? How about which contribute the least?