I do believe the biggest impact would come from regulating large companies and billionaires, but it’s not one or the other.

  • Jack
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    10 months ago

    No they’re not - having a kid in an overpopulated world is 2 orders of magnitude worse in the USA.

    • 2.4 tonnes of CO2e released per driver per year with the average fossil-fuel powered car.
    • 1.2 tonnes of CO2e released for electric car users in most countries.
    • 117.7 tonnes per kid per parent per year. Wynes et al. 2017

    Human overpopulation is not only the biggest contributor to push us over climate-change tipping-points, it’s also the root cause of almost all other causes. It’s also the root cause of unsustainable habitat loss and pollution. It’s also the root cause of factory farming and industrial fishing, which causes more pain and suffering every year than all other atrocities ever committed in all of history combined.