"JGD" wrote in message
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On 30/07/2019 13:11, Andrew wrote: On 30/07/2019 11:56, JGD wrote:
The urgency is about stopping what is happening in the next 100-200
years, not in 50,000 or one million or 50 million years. Think human
timescales!

In that case you should ignore all the 'climate crisis'
screachers and start shouting 'POPULATION crisis', until
people start to listen.

Every female who has had, or intends to have more than 2 surviving
kids is guaranteeing the demise of the human race.



Actually, population growth is no longer that acute a problem - we've
largely missed the boat on that one. See eg:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...f-the-century/

or https://pewrsr.ch/2N7MIUb (the same URL shortened).

Certainly an extra 20-30% added to the world population between now and
2100 is not going to help things and if it could be limited that's all to
the good, but it's not the killer factor that climate change itself is.

There is no evidence that climate change is a killer factor.

Sure, if we do see significant rises in sea level that will be a problem
for some places like Bangladesh, but thats not a killer factor.

Looks like Africa is main continent where efforts should be focused to
encourage smaller family sizes.

But some african countries have seen their fertility rate halved since
1950 so it is far from clear that any action is actually needed.

If that were successful then we might significantly undershoot the 10.9B
that's currently projected for 2100 (up from nearly 8B now).