The University Record, March 18, 1998 To help environment, limit
number of children The Feb. 18 article "Take Part in
Environmental Theme Semester by conserving paper, energy" listed
some nice ideas like use smaller font sizes, print on both
sides, etc., but forgot the most important contribution we can
make to the environmentăto limit the number of children we
produce to no more than two. Consumption and pollution are
directly proportional to the size of the human population.
Everything in the list is trivial compared to the benefit we can
cause to the environment by each of us limiting the number of
children we produce to at most two. In our country now-a-days
most couples are going for three, four kids; some are even
having seven kids in one pregnancy and winning huge prizes. This
trend is not helpful to the environment. If you run this item
again later on, I hope the fact that limiting the number of
children to at most two is the most beneficial thing to the
environment that we can do, will be highlighted