Weird they’d even do this study and naturally it confirmed what any sane human already knows…
Via Hot Air:
Global climate change. Sustainability. Erosion of the natural ecosystem. A strain on global natural resources. These are all vital concerns to those who would work as shepherds of the biosphere. And what is the biggest threat to all of these things? You can try to blame it on certain niche factors such as the use of fossil fuels, industrialization, deforestation and the like, but in the end it all comes down to one overarching problem. There are just too many darned people.
So what to do? Well, the National Academy of Sciences recently concluded a study which, in part, examined precisely this problem. Sadly, they have concluded that we won’t be able to trim the herd sufficiently during this century even if we mandate a one child policy similar to China’s all across the world.
Restricting population growth will not solve global issues of sustainability in the short term, new research says.
A worldwide one-child policy would mean the number of people in 2100 remained around current levels, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…