Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are causing | George Monbiot

Rising consumption by the affluent has a far greater environmental impact than the birth rate in poorer nationsWhen a major study was published last month, showing that the global population is likely to peak then crash much sooner than most scientists had assumed, I naively imagined that people in rich nations would at last stop blaming all the world's environmental problems on population growth. I was wrong. If anything, it appears to have got worse.Next week the BirthStrike movement - founded by women who, by announcing their decision not to have children, seek to focus our minds on the horror of environmental collapse - will dissolve itself, because its cause has been hijacked so virulently and persistently by population obsessives. The founders explain that they had "underestimated the power of 'overpopulation' as a growing form of climate breakdown denial". Continue reading...