VIDEO: UN CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICIAL SAYS ‘WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT’ TO DEPOPULATE THE PLANET
Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)
“Obviously less people would exert less pressure on the natural resources,” Figueres answered, also noting that estimates suggest the Earth’s population will rise to nine billion by 2050.
Dalton then questioned whether that figure could in some way be stalled or halted.
“So is nine billion a forgone conclusion? That’s like baked in, done, no way to change that?” he asked Figueres.
“There is pressure in the system to go toward that; we can definitely change those, right? We can definitely change those numbers,” Figueres said in response.
“Really, we should make every effort to change those numbers because we are already, today, already exceeding the planet’s planetary carrying capacity.” she also claimed.
