The question of whether to have children looms large for many environmentalists. The ecology movement has long had a seam of Malthusian concern for human numbers, running into outright misanthropy among some deep greens who characterise humans as little more than a virus the planetary ecosystem would be better off without.
In recent years, the contact between the ecological movement and the traditional left has formed a new, emerging consensus that overconsumption is the primary engine of the climate crisis, rather than overpopulation per se. Danny Dorling’s body of work helps us to understand ...
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