CREDIT: Shutterstock If you’re looking to reduce the pressure humanity is putting on the climate and global ecosystem, curbing population growth can’t help you much. That’s the conclusion of new research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which modeled various approaches to slowing population growth — from the reasonable to the monstrous to the completely catastrophic — to see how they’d play out.
Study Says Curbing Population Growth Won’t Help Address Climate Change
Jeff Spross, Think Progress
Fri, 10/31/2014 - 11:56am
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