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Robert Walker
This is another junk science paper. These "vital signs" come from a very low quality paper with few cites and many mistakes from 2019 which was signed by amongst others the illustrious professor Micky Mouse of the Micky Mouse Institute of the Blind in Namibia. Of course they removed those names once they were discovered, but this shows how easy it was to add signatures to it. None of the IPCC scientists signed it and it was riddled with mistakes.
This is another paper with the same baffling graphs that they say are "vital signs" and same simplistic conclusions as before - that we need to stop GDP growth (this doesn't make economic sense, and is NOT the advice of the IPCC or IPBES - the problems of climate change needs and supports GDP growth, indeed transition to renewables is the best way to grow the economy fast to get out of the recession right now).
They say we have to educate women worldwide and give them contraceptives to reduce population growth. Actually the top priority is to reduced child mortality. Parents in places like Nigeria have large families mainly because so many kids die young. Contraceptives won't help them. They need their kids to grow up strong and healthy.
Then we also need to improve living standards, provide better education generally and equally for women but not just education on contraception - just raising their educational opportunities including higher / university education. and equal job opportunities. Basically raise the living standards of the weaker economies and improve equal opportunity and then the birth rate goes down. Of course you need access to contraceptives too but by themselves they do nothing.
They also say that we have to shift to mostly plant based diets. The likes of IPCC and IPBES talk about a reduction of meat eating by a fifth. They don't say we should become vegan.
It could have been written by professor Micky Mouse! It doesn't show much awareness of the IPCC reports or the literature on population growth.
This is my last debunk of their paper in 2019
11,000 Scientists + Micky Mouse Sign Climate Paper Without Fact Checking Cites - Carbon Tax Error - And Uncited Fate Of Humanity | Science 2.0https://www.science20.com/robert_walker/11000_scientists_sign_climate_change_paper_without_checking_cites_carbon_tax_blooper_uninhabitable_undefined_and