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Did you know....?

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The world now supports 10x the stable population that we had for the last 10,000 years, before the Industrial Revolution.  But there was a time when the planet was content with our population....

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Having one fewer child actually reduces your carbon footprint 100 times more than even becoming a vegan does.  It's the single biggest contributor to your lifetime carbon emissions (though it all helps)!

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80m+ extra people are added to Planet Earth every year. Think about that: 10x the population of New York City, 5.4x the population of Lagos, or 2.5x the population of Delhi, every year.  That's including deaths.

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Across nearly all of the Earth’s 846 ecoregions, more than half are badly impacted by our growing footprint.

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Since November 2019, 13,844+ scientists co-signed the paper 'World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency,' calling for six major actions, including the stabilization and decrease of global population and a move away from hyper-consumption, if we are to re-stabilize our climate.

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270 million women in low- and middle-income countries cannot use modern contraception despite wanting to delay or avoid pregnancy. Global estimates of unintended pregnancy suggest hundreds of millions of women would have smaller families and/or start later if they could access contraception.

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In 2020, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) passed a motion called “Importance for the conservation of nature of removing barriers to rights-based voluntary family planning.” 

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