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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
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday November 08 2019, @12:07AM
Let's see now.
Natural News Sources (listed at the bottom of the 'article')
A radio broadcast that links to a NASA article about effects of "orbital variations remain the most thoroughly examined mechanism of climatic change on time scales of tens of thousands of years" that provides nothing about the recent acceleration of climate change since the industrial age began. (emphasis mine)
Themselves (a surefire warning of a BS site)
The BBC, however that links to an article that basically disputes their article. (using the BBC to look good, hoping no one actually clicks on the link? This is also the second link posted by Mojibake Tengu (8598))
No link at all to NASA 'admitting' to this. (In all fairness, since NASA has never said such a thing, a link would be very difficult to obtain)
What a strange world when an article on a humor site is better sourced than a site claiming to be a science site. Of course that in itself is not so absurd. George Carlin was frequently far more on point than the daily news cycle and far more insightful than any politician ever.
https://www.cracked.com/article_26820_11000-scientists-stop-killing-planet-you-utter-morons.html [cracked.com]
May you live in interesting times indeed.
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