Why is nobody willing to say the ‘P’ word?
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Population growth is one of the top two drivers of climate and ecological destruction,
writes Donnachadh McCarthy.
With extraordinarily apt timing, the terrifying global ‘eight billion people day’ arrived in the middle of the failed Cop27 in Egypt. It came just 11 years after the previous ‘seven billion day’ in 2011. And the UN predicts we will pass 10 billion day by 2080.
We are adding 80 million to the global population annually. That is just under the population of Britain, Belgium and Ireland combined. All of these people will require land, water and other resources to feed, house, wash, transport, clothe and more. Combined with exploding consumption, the population explosion is pushing humanity over the climate and ecological crises cliffs.
The draft Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in April 2022 stated that ‘globally, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and population growth remained the strongest drivers of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion ...
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