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Well, we may or may not be overusing the planet's resources; people have been saying that since Malthus in 1798, when the world population was less than 1 billion. The fact remains that global food production per capita has been consistently growing since 1960, at a rate of about 0.5% per year.

However, this is entirely unrelated to climate change caused by CO2 emissions, which is what the Paris agreement covers.

Unfortunately, the article you cite attempts to conflate the two, and freely admits that most of their "ecological footprint" is down to CO2 emissions. This is quite literally comparing apples and oranges, and dressing it up in fancy language to make it pass peer review.




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