The author does look at it that way. > not only has the human population grown like gangbusters, but the level of affluence per person has soared by an even la

The author does look at it that way. > not only has the human population grown like gangbusters, but the level of affluence per person has soared by an even larger factor. The impact on our planet scales as the product of these two He just spins it as a bad thing. He has, essentially, 3 actual graphs (GWP, extinction rate, CO2 emissions). The others are all subsets or proxies of those three or based on too few data points and fit to a curve that flatters his point. This population explosion apocalypse is as old as time and each version of it fails to come true.