Some environmentalists argue we should prioritize a world with fewer humans, but maybe we need to rethink our approach to rising populations.
But reducing people to their per-capita emissions comes with its own problems. Humans aren’t tradable carbon chips, and climate interventions aren’t just about reducing emissions.
Giving women access to good education and voluntary family planning is the right thing to do, because it means more people enjoy better lives. In the DRC, women who are educated past secondary level have about three children on average,more than seven children from women who don’t have the same education. “I want to live in a world where we have fundamental freedoms and human rights,” says Kimberly Nicholas, a climate scientist at Lund University in Sweden.
The future of our planet is about way more than the sheer number of humans living here. It’s about whether they will have good lives and live in places with stable governments, access to health care, and basic human rights. “Thinking of a population as a faceless crowd or mass—you really don’t think about people’s identities or humanity in that context,” says Nicholas.
In 2017, Nicholas published a study looking at the effect that changes in lifestyle had on carbon emissions. By a long shot, thesomeone could make was to choose to have one fewer child. Nicholas regularly gets emails from people who ask her whether they should feel guilty about wanting to have another child. Ultimately, Nicholas would prefer we live in a world where everyone can satisfy their own preferences without worrying about the effect it has on the planet.
Whether there are 8 billion humans or 10 billion, we should be thinking about how to find ways for everyone to live good lives. “We have this carbon budget to prevent catastrophic climate change,” says Nicholas, referring to. “It’s very quickly running out.” Earth has the capacity for more people or for fewer people—it all depends on what those of us who are alive right now are prepared to do to make sure we don’t wreck the place before the next billion get here.
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