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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Win Environmental Award for Decision to Have Only Two Children
Vogue Middle east ^ | 11 July 2021 | Apoorva Dudani

Posted on 07/11/2021 10:51:34 AM PDT by Cronos

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have won an award for their decision to have no more than two kids. In light of UN’s World Population Day on July 11, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were given the award by Population Matters. The UK charity campaigns to achieve a sustainable human population and said it was an “enlightened decision” by the pair, parents to two-year-old son Archie and newborn daughter Lilibet.

The charity sees population growth as a major contributor to environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and climate change, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are helping to ensure “a better future for their children” and “providing a role model for other families,” according to the charity organization.

"Having a smaller family reduces our impact on the Earth, and provides a better chance for all our children, their children and future generations to flourish on a healthy planet. We commend the Duke and Duchess for taking this enlightened decision, and for affirming that a smaller family is also a happy family,” spokespersons for the organization said.

The couple has been given the award with nine others, and each recipient will receive a £500 donation for a charity of their choice. In 2019, Harry and Meghan revealed they only had plans to have two children to lessen their impact on the environment, telling Vogue: “Surely, being as intelligent as we all are, or as evolved as we all are supposed to be, we should be able to leave something better behind for the next generation.”

Other winners include Wendo Aszed, founder of a women’s empowerment and community health project in rural Kenya, Emma Gannon, author of Olive, a best-selling novel addressing the choice to be childfree, and Nairashe Maritsa, a teenager fighting child marriage in Zimbabwe.


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1 posted on 07/11/2021 10:51:34 AM PDT by Cronos
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This while Chin’er is encouraging their citizens to have three children

So stupid the PR campaign to elevate their fame and fortune...


2 posted on 07/11/2021 10:54:52 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Cronos

No award praising her for stopping at two will prevent her from having a third.


3 posted on 07/11/2021 10:54:55 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Cronos

4 posted on 07/11/2021 10:56:00 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Cronos

They saved the world. Have we seen a GOOD picture of the second baby?? I haven’t.


5 posted on 07/11/2021 10:57:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Cronos

I see Vogue Middle East is as political as all the other Vogues.


6 posted on 07/11/2021 10:57:49 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Cronos

Two too many, if you ask me... I do wonder, though, will they take back the award when she has a third entitled little brat?


7 posted on 07/11/2021 10:58:17 AM PDT by LIConFem (Bring a Commie to room temperature for Mommy)
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To: Cronos

If I had known about that, I would have stopped at 2. Then again, I like to cook steaks on my Traeger grill, so I’m sure that would disqualify me.


8 posted on 07/11/2021 10:59:15 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Cronos

Not the Bee


9 posted on 07/11/2021 11:00:26 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: Sacajaweau
So, Prince Harry is having 'the procedure' done on him ?
Or, is 'all about Meee !' just going to eliminate the wanker, altogether ?

10 posted on 07/11/2021 11:01:21 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Cronos

I think he deserves some kind of medal for fathering that many


11 posted on 07/11/2021 11:01:37 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Cronos

He’s still a prince? I thought they lost that title when they gave up their responsibilities.


12 posted on 07/11/2021 11:01:46 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Cronos

Children are a blessing from the Lord.

Environweenies are not.


13 posted on 07/11/2021 11:02:18 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I regret those two are having any children at all.


14 posted on 07/11/2021 11:03:27 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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Megan is not a young girl. 39 or so if I recall. Having more kids would involve risks that come with older mothers.


15 posted on 07/11/2021 11:06:23 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: TexasGator

Pictures are worth thousands of words....or tons of carbon impact.


16 posted on 07/11/2021 11:08:03 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: BradyLS

She’d get an abortion. She has no morals.


17 posted on 07/11/2021 11:09:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Cronos

Thanks for sparing the world from any more prince and princess want-to-be’s.


18 posted on 07/11/2021 11:09:53 AM PDT by Ninaq (Nina)
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To: Cronos

Environmental award or evolution award for stopping the spread of stupidity?


19 posted on 07/11/2021 11:10:05 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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Why didn’t they adopt and REALLY save the world?


20 posted on 07/11/2021 11:11:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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