[MCN] How big a threat would combustion of fossil fuel be if the human population was 10, 10 thousand, or even 10 million?

[Lance Olsen]

Mora (2014) reviews “recent studies showing how the issue of population growth has been downplayed and trivialized among scientific fields.” 

He argues that human population size, “...despite being directly or indirectly linked to the deterioration of ecological systems and a key factor for the success of conserving species and ecosystems, has been rarely considered and in fact ‘trivialized or ignored’ by much of the conservation biology community.” 

Mora, C. 2014. Revisiting the environmental and socioeconomic effects of population growth: a fundamental but fading issue in modern scientific, public, and political circles. Ecology and Society 19(1): 38. 
<<http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138>>

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“Schwartz and others (2010) found that grizzly bear survival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem declined as road density, number of homes, and site developments increased.”

Flathead National Forest Biological Assessment, December 2017 p. 104

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“Once confined to the margins, the ecological critique of economic growth has gained widespread attention. At a United Nations climate-change summit in September, the teen-age Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg declared, ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!’ ” 

<<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-growth>>>
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“Schwartz and others (2010) found that grizzly bear survival in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem declined 
as road density, number of homes, and site developments increased.”

Flathead National Forest Biological Assessment, December 2017 p. 104

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