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

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8. "You can taste it."

France24 reporter in New Delhi a couple days ago talking about the record air pollution. Lots of people wearing masks like they do in China.

Plastic pollution in the oceans and other waste disposal also an overpopulation issue.

And then there's Hungary's Victor Orban who of course knows that more people equals more power. He "has promised that women who have four or more children will never pay income tax again, in a move aimed at boosting the country’s population." (I have to wonder if that hasn't always been the underlying motivation behind the anti-abortion position of the Catholic Church and others.)