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原文：

As with climate change, our individual decisions on family size add up to an outcome that we all share. No people are making mistakes when they choose not to have children or to have small families. (Although we might all be making a mistake, together, when instead of taking care of one another, we make it hard for people to choose larger families.) It’s in no one’s hands to change global population trajectories alone. Not yours, whatever you choose for your life, not one country’s, not one generation’s. Nor is it in your hands personally to end all carbon emissions even by ending your own emissions. And yet our personal choices add up to big implications for humanity as a whole.

译文：

就像气候变化一样，我们在家庭规模上的个人决定会形成共同的结果。选择不生育或组建小家庭的人都没有错。（尽管我们可能都犯了错——如果我们不能彼此照顾，那就会令人难以选择大家庭。）任何人都无法独力改变全球人口轨迹。不管你为自己的生活选择什么，这都不是你的问题，也不是一个国家、一代人的问题。你不能通过停止自己的排放来结束所有的碳排放。然而，我们的个人选择会对整个人类产生巨大影响。