Awareness | Posted by Julie Z on 07/21/2009
“Why the planet needs more non-breeders”
Cameron Diaz, the super-environmentalist, has come out as a non-breeder, according to Kirsten Dirksen at the Huffington Post. That’s right, she’s not going to have kids. Why? Because one U.S. person is equal to 20 tons of CO2 per year and 24 acres of productive land. And probably a few other reasons as well, but truly, not having kids is an environmental act.
So, considering that the world’s population capacity has been estimated to be at 5 billion and we’re currently at 6.8 billion and rising, and population growth has been shown to add to “water shortages, cropland conversion to non-farm uses, traffic congestion, more garbage, overfishing, crowding in national…





