Articles like the one being discussed bother me so much. If there are 11B people in the world by 2100, honestly no one is going to give a #### about carbon footprint, since all water between the Indian Ocean and east to the edge of the Pacific will be dead. They are purposefully cherry picking a current 'hot topic', and ignoring that overpopulation will eventually be self correcting on a pretty massive scale of famine and disease, because when you eliminate 3/4 of the world's primary food source, it's going to get ugly.
They cite 200 year old theories about what will happen once population reaches a tipping point, and believe that because it hasn't happened yet, it simply won't.
The Industrial Revolution bought us time, but it will take a second revolution of similar impact to buy us more, and there seems to be none on the horizon.
Worrying about carbon, and oil spills, is all well and good, but it won't stop our grandchildren from having to watch the world burn.
Welp, it's getting late. Night!
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