Children causing climate change?

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | July 12, 2013

A belated happy Population Day, for those who observed it. CNA’s piece yesterday commemorating the milestone was meant to counter the coverage that PRI ran last weekend, which sounded the alarm, again, that there may be just too many babies being born. The UN’s latest figures, released in June, predicted 9.5 billion of us by 2050, although as I observed in the CNA article, the UN caveats its prediction, saying there is no national data for half of the countries making up that number. Notably it would seem, these are the same (developing) countries expected to have the highest population growth. Hence the UN says it relies on surveys and “adjustments” to fill the gaps. Even if the UN’s projections were to come to pass, AEI’s Nick Eberstadt told CNA, the benefits of human ingenuity have historically outpaced the downsides of population growth.

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