Educating girls and empowering women has multiple positive impacts on climate
'When
the analysts at Project Drawdown quantified the impact of 100 solutions
to climate change, they were surprised by some of their results, the
organization's executive director said in a recent appearance at
Carnegie-Mellon University.
"Some
solutions were a total surprise," said Jonathan Foley, an atmospheric
scientist who took the helm of Project Drawdown late last year, after
the list was made. "Some surprised me, and I've been working at this for
a long time." .........
'"Women
who have more access to education and more opportunity tend to have
fewer children, and a little bit later in life," Foley said. It's the
only effective way, short of coercion, to reduce human population
growth, which lies at the foundation of all of the earth's environmental
woes."'
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