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A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge Review"A Pivotal Moment" is a mixed bag. On the positive side, contributors like Brian O'Neill, Robert Engelman and Lynne Gaffikin provide persuasive evidence that stabilizing populations is key to addressing environmental problems. This core message is important and timely, given that the population / environment connection seems to have largely disappeared from environmental discourse in the past two decades, at least in the United States.On the negative side, however,the discussion here is relentlessly anthropocentric. In almost 400 pages, there is hardly a mention that any other species besides good old Homo sapiens might deserve some of the land, water, and other resources that humanity is ever more thoroughly appropriating.
"Sustainability" in these pieces inevitably means sustaining more people in ease and comfort. There is a lot of talk about women's reproductive rights--but no discussion, anywhere, about other species' right to continued existence.
All the contributors to "A Pivotal Moment" agree that women have an unalienable right to have as many children as they want. The assumption is that this is OK environmentally, because "as many as they want" typically means less than currently. But of course, it need not mean that. As one of the pieces does point out, in some countries, a major impediment to reducing fertility rates is women's and men's desire for lots of kids.
In a world with 6.9 billion people (and counting), do people really have the right to have as many children as they want? Remember, if you say "yes," that includes "the Octomom" and Joe Jessup, the Utah patriarch smiling out from this month's National Geographic in a picture with his five wives and forty-six children.
I don't think a real environmentalist can support an unlimited right to reproduction in an overcrowded world, anymore than they can support a right to unlimited consumption. If only because, first, we want to preserve reasonable, limited rights to consume and procreate for future generations; and second, because we want to preserve the very existence of the ten million or so other species with whom we (more and more grudgingly, it seems) share our planet.
In any case, it would have been nice to read a real debate about such issues in this book! Instead, everyone is singing from the same hymnal. "More rights and opportunities for everyone will lead to environmental protection."
Maybe, but maybe not. If not, what then?A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge Overview
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