Population has approximately doubled while simultaneously huge swaths of the globe have gone from "only the rich can afford cars" to "the middle class can affor

Population has approximately doubled while simultaneously huge swaths of the globe have gone from "only the rich can afford cars" to "the middle class can afford cars." While the CO2 certainly isn't good one would need to do some Olympic level mental gymnastics to argue that an increase in wealth to the point where billions more people can afford an expensive complex good like a car is a bad thing overall.