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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
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.
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."
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