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George Monbiot

Review of Planet of the Humans

Let us look at Our World in Data and population growth

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May 7, 2020

Via The Guardian / by George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot

• https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/michael-moore-far-right-climate-crisis-deniers-film-environment-falsehoods

First, the headline figures. Global population growth today is 1.05%. That’s half the peak growth rate, reached in 1963 (2.2%).

In other words, population growth is not, as many claim, exponential. The rate is falling rapidly. By contrast, until the pandemic, global economic growth had been hovering around 3% for several years, and was expected to stay there. In other words, it *was* exponential.

After the (coronavirus) lockdowns, governments will do everything they can to get it back on track.

• https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1258352814520139779

• https://mobile.twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1258365637451288578

• https://mobile.twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1258365030552215552

As Our World in Data notes:

“Even several billion additional people in low-income countries … would leave global emissions almost unchanged. 3 or 4 billion low income individuals would only account for a few percent of global CO2."

• https://ourworldindata.org/co2-by-income-region

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