Highest Impact: Limiting Family Size's Long-Term Effect

Having one fewer child is identified as the single most impactful individual action for reducing lifetime carbon emissions, far exceeding the savings from other common eco-friendly choices.

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• lunduniversity.lu.se
• pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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• biologicaldiversity.org
• brookings.edu

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