During COVID, we've seen drastic changes to the economy and individual behavior. I recall reading articles saying it all amounted to only a 5% change in emissio

During COVID, we've seen drastic changes to the economy and individual behavior. I recall reading articles saying it all amounted to only a 5% change in emissions or something like that. I can't help but thing the real problem is simply that we have too many humans. Or at least, too many humans at a quality of life standard that is too high. We can institute population control standards (cap and trade permits?) or we can decide that it doesn't make sense to base our lives around consumerism and shipping things from long distances. But the latter notion - which might look like forming localized circular economies - feels as impractical an idea as those pushing for extreme restructuring of societal structures. And everything else, like technological innovation, seems either like a gamble or like noise.