PHONE-IN - Would you stop having kids to save the planet?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The population of Earth has doubled since 1970 and is heading for 10 billion by 2050. That’s a lot of extra strain on the planet. Could having fewer kids be the answer? Jane Garvey wants to hear your thoughts!
Would you consider having fewer kids for the greater good? Have you or someone you know decided to live a child-free life? Is Harry and Meghan’s choice to stop at two the ideal compromise? Are you someone who couldn’t ignore the urge for a third? Or is it over-consumption rather than over-population that’s the real issue?
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Presenter - Jane Garvey Producer - Anna Lacey Guest - Prof Sarah Harper Guest - Anna Hughes
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| 0:35.0 | This is the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | It's a phone in this morning, 03700,100, 444. |
| 0:41.6 | Would you consider, did you consider in the past having fewer children for the |
| 0:46.4 | sake of the planet? |
| 0:48.4 | The population of Earth has doubled since 1970. |
| 0:51.8 | It's heading for 10 billion by 2050, and that is putting a huge amount of additional |
| 0:58.1 | strain on earth. |
| 1:00.0 | So could having fewer children be the answer or at least your contribution to the earth. |
| 1:07.0 | So give us a call if you have a view on that. |
| 1:09.0 | There is a BBC 2 program tomorrow night in addition of Horizon hosted by Chris |
| 1:13.2 | Packum it's called 7.7 billion people and counting and I've seen a preview of that |
| 1:19.2 | show and there's some very emotive footage within it I think it's fair to say. |
| 1:24.0 | One of the contributors is with us this morning Professor Sarah Harper |
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