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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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @01:38AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @01:38AM (#917683)

    So you're a bigoted dickhole ok. By dickhole I mean you are regularly penetrated by big black cocks and you're so traumatized by your own life choices that you've decided to support murdering the human population to cover for your guilty pleasures. Nothing wrong with big black cock, we're all hoping you come to terms with your sexuality instead of supporting genocide.

    Not sure why sexual repression results in people going all Nazi, I leave it up to historians and/or psychologists.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday November 09 2019, @12:01AM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday November 09 2019, @12:01AM (#918102) Journal

    errr I guess you should read up on the georgia guidestones.

    To be completely explicit, my opinion is that the georgia guidestones are a plan hiding in plain sight, all you have to do to decode it is: consider it newspeak.
    First point decoded: "cause overpopulation and pollution, then keep the best slaves alive, dependent on resources scarcity and perpetual therapy". Environmentalism comes from the 1 percenters, that is from the system that defeated the pre industrial society, which was more respectful of the environment and demography.
    You can have fun decoding the other points yourself.

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