Twentieth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The past century of increases in human population and resource consumption has produced some undesirable effects. We are glad for humans to thrive and be happy, but a more rapid yet non-coercive lowering of global fertility rates and human numbers will produce many benefits for future generations of our own species and for nature. High and increasing global population correlates almost perfectly with declining biodiversity and increasing CO2 emissions. To reverse these trends we ought to encourage and facilitate a quicker, non-coercive reduction of the global fertility rate to 1.75 by 2050. Evidence is presented to show this transition is achievable, and will produce myriad benefits for humans and nature.