Climate Change and Population Growth - The Trade-Offs

No change this immense is entirely positive in its effects, says author Stephen Johnson. If you kept the population where it was in 1920, we wouldn't have climate change today,. There just wouldn't be enough people emitting enough carbon into the atmosphere. But there's a strange, I think, truth here, which is that the climate crisis is the result of industrialization plus the triumph of public health and medicine.