Here at The Overpopulation Project, we endeavour to go along a positive outlook. Although many environmental trends are grim, at that place exist clear paths forward toward a more sustainable world: one where people steward resources for the time to come and share habitat and resources generously with other species.

Recently, a contributor wrote challenging united states of america to identifysolutions to the demographic and environmental bug we write about. Nosotros appreciate the reminder to remain forrard looking and in response share the ideas below. Obviously, no 1 person or organization can cover all these efforts. Simply each of united states can do something and together nosotros can create a sustainable world.

These are personal and policy suggestions that we and others study. Some points are obvious, others adequately well established, but all need more than research. If you are a scientist or scholar, one of the most of import actions to have is to address population matters in your research, or bring together other researchers who are doing so.

What suggestions would you add or take off this list? Which ideas demand farther inquiry? We would honey to hear from you!

Actions on the individual level

  • Have fewer children! One is good, two is enough – read more hither
  • Consider adoption!
  • Read, brainwash yourself most population issues – read more here
  • Reduce your personal consumption: become vegan, limit flying, share your household with others, and more
  • Educate your teenage child(ren) most sex and contraception early on, without taboos
  • Spread your knowledge and concern among your friends and family, raise sensation well-nigh overpopulation on social media – read more than here
  • Donate to family planning programs in your own or other countries – for example to International Planned Parenthood, FP2020 or another as deserving organization
  • Vote for politicians who admit the detrimental impacts of population growth and propose political solutions

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Actions on the customs level

  • Join local ecology groups, encouraging them to "connect the dots" betwixt population and the environs and address population problems
  • Write opinion pieces for local newspapers, contact local media sources requesting more than reporting on population bug – create demand!
  • Municipalities should set growth management boundaries, discouraging sprawl development on their fringes
  • Towns and cities should purchase surrounding lands, or the development rights to such lands, in order to ready them aside as nature preserves and open space
  • Metropolis councils should pass resolutions accepting limits to growth, and directing their national governments to develop policies to stabilize or reduce national populations

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Actions on the national level

In high fertility developing countries, governments should …

  • Generously fund family planning programs
  • Make modernistic contraception legal, gratuitous and available everywhere, even in remote areas
  • Improve health care to reduce babe and child mortality
  • Restrict child marriage and raise the legal age of union (minimum 18 years)
  • Introduce obligatory education as long every bit possible (minimum until the age of 16), and generously fund the necessary infrastructure

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In low fertility developed countries, governments should …

  • Comprehend rather than fight aging and shrinking societies – read more here
  • Reorganize pensions and other socio-economic systems to accommodate aging societies
  • Eliminate baby bonuses, government funding for fertility treatments, and other incentives to raise fertility rates
  • Reduce immigration numbers (at least to a level that will stabilize national populations, preferably to one that will lower them) – read our web log here
  • Reduce resource consumption and pollution through an constructive mix of taxes, incentives and regulations

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I n every country, governments should …

  • Empower women, assuring equal rights, treatment and opportunities for both genders
  • Provide information and admission to reproductive health care, including all types of low cost, prophylactic, effective contraception – read more hither
  • Make sterilization free, for men and women, or at to the lowest degree covered under all healthcare plans
  • Legalize abortion without restrictions or social stigma – read our blog here
  • Integrate family planning and rubber maternity programs into primary health care systems
  • Make population and ecology issues and sex education function of the bones educational curriculum
  • Disincentivize third and farther children non-coercively, by limiting government support to the first two children
  • Create a national population policy built around an optimal population size, and work to achieve it
  • Ready aside half the national mural free from intensive development and defended to biodiversity protection – read more here

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Deportment on the global level

  • Make "catastrophe population growth" 1 of the United nations Sustainable Development Goals – read our web log here
  • Greatly increase the amount of strange assistance going to family planning – learn more here
  • Change the electric current foreign aid distribution, giving more support for wellness and education, while ending international military aid – read more here
  • Global religious leaders should approve modern contraception methods and forcefully reject a fatalistic view of procreation – read more hither
  • Financially support media programs designed to change social norms to bolster family unit planning, best example is Population Media Center
  • Hold a new global population conference, the first in twenty-five years, to reaffirm the ecological need to limit human numbers and the bones man right to family planning
  • Connect family planning to international environmental and development funding; e.grand., include family planning in the Green Climate Fund
  • Create a new global treaty to end population growth, with all countries choosing population targets every half decade with a plan on how to achieve them (like to the NDC format) – read our blog here
  • Create an online platform similar to the ClimateWatch platform, where visitors tin run into countries' goals, plans and achievements to date
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