Earth Needs Fewer People to Beat the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say

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7. But we're saving the climate to save the people. not just everything else.

Any time we want population growth to slow, then stop, then even lower to the great benefit of all humanity we know how to do it: Improve wellbeing and choice. It's been proven many times over that, when the choice is between having "normal" numbers of children and existing poverty or having fewer children, or even none, and greater wellbeing, people overwhelmingly choose the latter.

SecState Hillary knew it; she visited 115 nations, and worked with many more, to help them develop better opportunities and incomes, especially for women. We're already there; without immigration, population in the U.S. would have plummeted over the past several decades, with its own serious costs and benefits of course.