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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by omegaworks on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:38PM (#13234584)
>What's our track record on reducing consumption and population?

As for the latter, it's great actually. Lifting people out of poverty and keeping their kids alive lowers their birth rate.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by DennisP on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:44PM (#13234614)
Globally we haven't reduced population, we've just reduced its rate of increase. Our success rate on actually reducing global population is zero.

And generally, lifting people out of poverty has meant increasing their carbon emissions.

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