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Nobody mention population.

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For what it's worth Project Drawdown [0] has in the top ten solutions :

6 Educating Girls

7 Family Planning

This is only a polite way to say we are overpopulated and should have fewer children.

[0] https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

Do you propose reducing the population to zero over the next twenty years? If not then you don't solve the problem.

If growth is as predicted in India and Africa (for example), then even the most extreme penitent self-flagellation in the developed world will not make a blind bit of difference.

If the developed nations figure out how to live sustainably, India and Africa can just do the same.

Exactly. Any time overpopulation isn't mentioned as a (or 'the') primary cause, my nictitating membranes close up and I lose interest in reading.

I have a hard time seeing the overpopulation argument as anything other than classist and racist nonsense.

It's not the vast majority in developing nations that are using up all our fossil fuels and poisoning the planet, it's us. And the damage being done in developing nations is nearly all to serve our needs in the developed world. We are the problem.

I don't know who you mean by "us," but while this distribution is somewhat top heavy, it's not something where even if the most destructive country took its emissions to zero, the world would be safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...

Dunno why it's classist or racist. I'll put forth the proposition that there are too many people in the US.

Imagine the greenhouse load reduction from having half the population. It wouldn't surprise me if it's easier to push population growth down than it is to have good habits, especially after the low hanging fruit is plucked.

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