"World economies are growing, not shrinking, and emissions will therefore continue to rise. The human population of nearly 8 billion people may soon climb to 10 billion or more. The world’s two most populous nations, China and India, are rapidly modernizing, and creating ever-greater consumer- oriented middle classes, while on a building spree of new power plant construction to meet rising demand. In China, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and every nation where average income levels are rising, meat consumption -- a major contributor to climate change and every major environmental problem -- is increasing as well."
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Steven Best, "Failed Species: The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire". Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity. 9 (2). (2021).
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