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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 07 2019, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the Neo-Malthusian dept.

From Bloomberg:

Forty years ago, scientists from 50 nations converged on Geneva to discuss what was then called the "CO2-climate problem." At the time, with reliance on fossil fuels having helped trigger the 1979 oil crisis, they predicted global warming would eventually become a major environmental challenge.

Now, four decades later, a larger group of scientists is sounding another, much more urgent alarm. More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet.

[...] The scientists make specific calls for policymakers to quickly implement systemic change to energy, food, and economic policies. But they go one step further, into the politically fraught territory of population control. It "must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity," they write.

Others disagree, stating

Fewer people producing less in greenhouse-gas emissions could make some difference in the danger that climate change poses over time. But whether we end up with 9, 10, or 11 billion people in the coming decades, the world will still be pumping out increasingly risky amounts of climate pollution if we don't fundamentally fix the underlying energy, transportation, and food systems.

Critics blast a proposal to curb climate change by halting population growth

Journal Reference:
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, William R Moomaw. World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency[$]. BioScience. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz088


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 08 2019, @12:02AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday November 08 2019, @12:02AM (#917646)

    I like the European model of free university for all who are interested... doesn't seem to have bankrupted them, or seriously hurt the quality of their university educations offered.

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday November 08 2019, @02:22AM (1 child)

    by Immerman (3985) on Friday November 08 2019, @02:22AM (#917692)

    As do I. I think that should also apply to trade schools, if it doesn't. No reason that "intellectuals" should be the only ones to benefit, mechanics and plumbers are far more essential to societies continued existence.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 08 2019, @03:05AM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday November 08 2019, @03:05AM (#917704)

      that should also apply to trade schools, if it doesn't

      I know it does in Germany, about 1/20 kids I met while travelling couldn't speak English - they were the ones on the trade school track.

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