Yes https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/the-relationship-betw...

Educating girls in poor countries, I'll posit, offers the only hope for a future without recurring mass violence. The empirical evidence is that where girls are educated, they acquire power to control their own fertility, and also the will to do so, that being the best means to concentrate limited household resources toward quality education for their own children.

And this voluntary, culturally-based impetus toward population control is the only plausible moderator of the runaway consumption of critical resources that now threatens mass suffering on a civilizational scale. CO2 uptake capacity of the biosphere being of course only one critical, supply-constrained resource among several, e.g. fresh water, fertile land, fisheries.

Political systems on the other hand are everywhere far too weak to look to for effective action. Here's a timely reminder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-epa-museum-histor...

This is true even in the United States

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/9/education-lev...