Journal article
Climate change and optimum population
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It is often claimed that reducing population size would be advantageous for climate change mitigation, on the grounds that lower population would naturally correspond to lower emissions. This apparently obvious claim is in fact seriously misleading. Reducing population size would indeed, other suitable things being equal, reduce the emissions rate. But it is well recognised that the primary determinant of the eventual amount of climate change is not the emissions rate, but rather cumulative e...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 443.8KB)
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- 10.1093/monist/ony021
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Monist Journal website
- Volume:
- 102
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 42–65
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2153-3601
- ISSN:
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0026-9662
- Source identifiers:
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824927
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:824927
- UUID:
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uuid:41a48ede-f6bf-4d80-b7e7-e9273f02303b
- Local pid:
- pubs:824927
- Deposit date:
- 2018-02-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Greaves, H
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2018 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/ony021
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