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Climate change: Are there too many people?

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Climate Change - Why 2 Billion Low-Employed People Would Actually Increase Carbon Levels a Lot

An extra 2 billion people born in low-consuming countries would actually add very little to global carbon emissions. Professor Ravikumar made his discovery after crunching the numbers, an idiom meaning performing many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data. According to this view, the real problem is not overpopulation, but overconsumption. Affluence has become a big factor in climate change. And that's true in poorer countries as well as richer ones.

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