Faster population growth ups climate change effect, UN report says
BY DWIGHT SARGA
November 18, 2009
Faster population growth aggravates climate change because more people mean more green house gas emissions, according to the UN Population Fund’s State of World Population Report 2009 which was released yesterday.
As population increases, the study said, economies and consumption outpace the earth’s capacity to adjust, making climate change effects more extreme.
“Green house gas emissions would not be accumulating so hazardously had the number of earth’s inhabitants not increased so rapidly, but remained at 300 million people, the world population of 1,000 years ago, compared with 6.8 billion today,” the report said. [Read at the source…]
