The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that if we fail to prevent global warming rising by more than 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial world temperature, our children and grandchildren will inherit catastrophic global environmental problems. Actions to date to slow global warming have been very sluggish, but recently governments across the world have started to take this matter seriously. For the human population to maintain its numbers, each woman must bear, on average, 2.1 children. Economically, poor Africa is the area to target to significantly reduce the global birth rate further. I am not averse to sensibly reducing birth rates when circumstances arise to justify this action.

Source: The Irish Times July 17, 2019 22:52 UTC