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Education, prosperity and equality can solve that. TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth?language=en https://www.ted.com

• the8472 10y ago
  Prosperity == higher living standards, which means more resource consumption per capita. So you merely substitute population growth with increased living standards as driving factor for emission increases.
• jamesblonde 10y ago
  I take issue with Hans Rosling (even though i happen to live in Stockholm). His message is 'dont worry, they will have babies for 50 years, then it will be all ok'. Sub-saharan Africa will have a similar population density to south east Asia. The world will have 10 billion. That's ok. But the truth is we don't know the carrying capacity of the earth. It's deeply unpopular to say this, but the only way i can see us solving this collective action problem is with a world government.