A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from below and the sides.
Not having kids isnt really the answer in that it creates a lot of problems for those of us already alive. Not that everyone needs to have kids, but in the general sense. Virtually every developed country in the world is below replacement population birth rates already. Eventually we are pretty much guaranteed to have massive issues caring for aging people as the population collapses after it peaks around 10B people. And thats assuming things stay the same as now, rather than get worse. In some places, like South Korea, its already a severe enough problem that they are converting unused elementary schools into senior centers or adult daycare
The climatological effects of the size of the population are entirely decided by how society operates. We have the technology to exist with 8-10B people in a sustainable way, but the world would have to change in a lot of ways to make it happen. Its not impossible, just unlikely
Not having kids isnt really the answer in that it creates a lot of problems for those of us already alive. Not that everyone needs to have kids, but in the general sense. Virtually every developed country in the world is below replacement population birth rates already. Eventually we are pretty much guaranteed to have massive issues caring for aging people as the population collapses after it peaks around 10B people. And thats assuming things stay the same as now, rather than get worse. In some places, like South Korea, its already a severe enough problem that they are converting unused elementary schools into senior centers or adult daycare
The climatological effects of the size of the population are entirely decided by how society operates. We have the technology to exist with 8-10B people in a sustainable way, but the world would have to change in a lot of ways to make it happen. Its not impossible, just unlikely