Hmm.

Almost all projected population growth is in Africa, where emissions per capita are low. Rich and middle-income countries, where emissions per capita are high, already have sub-replacement fertility rates.

I& #39;m not sure a "population bomb" freakout is warranted here. https://twitter.com/business/status/1200078223037673472">https://twitter.com/business/...

I can also see how this line of argument could lend fuel to the calls for climate-based immigration restriction, which I think is a bad idea.

And even in Africa, fertility is falling at an accelerating rate, just like it did in other countries that developed earlier. Meanwhile, I& #39;m pretty hopeful that the advent of solar will allow Africa to grow rich in a much cleaner way than Europe or China did.

Lyman Stone had a good graph showing that economic development is reducing fertility in Africa faster than it did anywhere else except for South Asia.

So I just wouldn& #39;t worry about an African "population bomb" destroying the climate. https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1052558799372877824">https://twitter.com/lymanston...

In conclusion, let& #39;s not go all Thanos here.

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