How do you know it's 1 billion and not 1 million or 10 billion? Hint: you don't know.
This is non-actionable opinion and therefore actively harmful as it further propagates no-action on climate change or solving problems whatsoever.
The population is peaking anyway, growth rates are dramatically slowing, so this is not at all a relevant point.
I certainly don't.
That wasn't the point. The point was that this is the conversation that matters, not how much cows fart.
But the downvotes of my comment are its perfect vindication: it's not something that anyone is willing to have honest conversations about.
How do you know it's 1 billion and not 1 million or 10 billion? Hint: you don't know.
This is non-actionable opinion and therefore actively harmful as it further propagates no-action on climate change or solving problems whatsoever.
The population is peaking anyway, growth rates are dramatically slowing, so this is not at all a relevant point.