NATION : Smaller Families Called Vital

The link between childbearing and the future of the environment is more critical than ever, a population control group said today in urging couples to have smaller families.

“The only lasting remedy to our national and global environmental woes is a combination of more efficient consumption and a stable, and perhaps smaller, U.S. population,” Zero Population Group said in a new report, “Planning the Ideal Family: The Small Family Option.”

“Efforts to relieve environmental stress by cutting consumption would be undercut, if not negated, by continued population growth or by stabilization at a size larger than our resources can sustain.”