Reproductive Justice, Not Population Control

Reproductive Justice, Not Population Control:

Breaking the Wrong Links and Making the Right Ones in the Movement for Climate Justice

By Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Román

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The authors argue for an approach based on the linkages between reproductive, environmental and climate justice, drawing connections between the same powerful forces driving climate change at the global level and environmental injustice and gender discrimination at the local level. This paper was prepared for the WE ACT for Environmental Justice conference on Advancing Climate Justice: Transforming the Economy, Public Health and Our Environment, January 29-30, New York City, New York.

Betsy Hartmann is the Director of the Population and Development Program and Professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College. A longstanding activist in the international women’s health movement, she writes and speaks frequently on the intersection of reproductive rights, population, environment, and security issues. Her books include Reproductive Rights and wrongs, the co-edited anthology Making Threats: Biofears and environmental Anxieties, and the recent political thriller Deadly election.