Is Global Population Control the Real Answer to Global Warming?
SEASON 3 – EPISODE 7 – Is Global Population Control the Real Answer to Global Warming?
In 1701 there were approximately 600 million people on the planet, today there are an estimated 7.8 billion people. By 2050 that figures is expected to go up by 2 billion taking us to a total of 9.8 billion people.
The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.9 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity.
The richest 10 percent accounted for over half of the emissions added to the atmosphere between 1990 and 2015.