
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Excerpts<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">While it doesn’t receive a lot of media coverage as a savvy environmental move, not having a child is the most effective single decision you can make to reduce your carbon footprint. The second-best alternative, living car-free, isn’t even close. That’s according to Canadian research published in the journal <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541" target="_new" class=" icon" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(100, 140, 148); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;">Environmental Research Letters</a>.<b class=""> [ open access ] </b><a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541" class="">http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541</a></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">This <a href="https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/environmental-cost-of-child-480x619.jpg" target="_new" class=" icon" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(100, 140, 148); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;">graphic</a> <<<a href="https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/environmental-cost-of-child-480x619.jpg" class="">https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/environmental-cost-of-child-480x619.jpg</a>>>shows the annual carbon savings from the highest-impact activities.</p><div id="inline-video-ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">The carbon savings from not having a child vastly outweighs every other single solution for mitigating carbon. And <a href="https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/children-and-retirement-savings-480x680.jpg" target="_new" class=" icon" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(100, 140, 148); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;">this chart</a> <<<a href="https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/children-and-retirement-savings-480x680.jpg" class="">https://assets.nerdwallet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/children-and-retirement-savings-480x680.jpg</a>>>shows the annual, not lifetime, savings. So not having a child accrues this benefit every single year.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Other options such as recycling, going car-free or eating vegetarian ... have little impact in comparison.</p><div class=""><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-the-environment-will-also-save-you-234000-2018-01-22" class="">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-the-environment-will-also-save-you-234000-2018-01-22</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">

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