Which element in the following quotation (taken from a report about climate change issued earlier this year by the Ministry of Defence’s internal think-tank) most powerfully grabs your attention?
“The Earth’s population has grown exponentially in the last century, and rapid climate change of the kind that we have seen before would have more dramatic human consequences, resulting in societal collapse, mega-migration, intensifying competition for much-diminished resources, and widespread conflict”.
Unless you are part of that very small minority of environmentalists who put population right at the top of any league table of current crises, that reference to “exponential population growth” will have gone straight in one ear and straight out the other.
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