The headline "Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say" is a terrible way to paraphrase a group statement emphasizing that "The climate crisis is closely linked to excessive consumption of the wealthy lifestyle." https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806">https://academic.oup.com/bioscienc...
The statement that "the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity" is the last and least heavily emphasized of the six recommendations.
Compare to: "must quickly implement massive energy efficiency and conservation practices and must replace fossil fuels with low-carbon renewables...Excessive extraction of materials and overexploitation of ecosystem"s, driven by economic growth, must be quickly curtailed"
11,000 Scientists: WE MUST MASSIVELY CURTAIL CONSUMPTION IMMEDIATELY STARTING YESTERDAY also let& #39;s think about bringing population growth down a bit maybe

BLOOMBERG: "World Scientists urge that poor people& #39;s reproductive organs be removed"
I& #39;m going to go ahead and say that my man Eric R did not get to write the headline to his article
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