That first article just reads like scare porn, calibrated to maximize clicks, while being light on actual substance.
It looks like the author has a history of writing like this. I wonder what her track record of being "right" is?
You might be pleased to learn that the Malthusians have a nearly 200 year record of being wrong.
Malthus was right. He was just ahead of his time. There are too many people in the world and it's the cause of climate change and almost every problem.
But that isn't the cause of climate change? The cause of climate change is a small number of those people releasing a gigantic amount of carbon
Do they indeed? They appear to be getting proven right on a daily basis, lately.
Technology increases productivity. Not all energy destroys the earth, see nuclear energy. More technology has enabled us to feed the earth with less people devoted to food production. Etc.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-Worlds-Energy-Prob...
> No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion. The real story is that we are already running short of oil, coal and natural gas because the direct and indirect costs of extraction are reaching a point where the selling price of food and other basic necessities needs to be unacceptably high to make the overall economic system work. At the same time, wind and solar and other “clean energy” sources are nowhere nearly able to substitute for the quantity of fossil fuels being lost.
> This unfortunate energy story is essentially a physics problem. Energy per capita and, in fact, resources per capita, must stay high enough for an economy’s growing population. When this does not happen, history shows that civilizations tend to collapse.
And Hyman Rickover's 1957 speech on energy and scarcity: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2007/07/02/speech-from-1957-predi...
Climate change is chiefly caused by two things: uncontrolled population growth and energy consumption growth.
A high standard of living - and civilization itself - is impossible without high energy consumption per capita.
Do you see the problem?
I can think of solutions that would be effective, but it would involve a lot of suffering.