Kamala Harris: We Must ‘Reduce Population’ to Fight ‘Climate Change’

Kamala Harris: We Must ‘Reduce Population’ to Fight ‘Climate Change’

Kamala Harris made an interesting remark during a speech on the purportedly devastating effects of climate change on Friday.

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water,” she said to applause.

The White House has already “corrected” the transcript of the speech by claiming that Harris meant to say “pollution.”

But Harris did not correct herself during her speech, and the audience applauded her message apparently without bridling at the de-population message.

Kamala Harris’s remarks, whether scripted or unscripted, do reflect a segment of the climate change activist community’s views on the matter.

In 2019, more than 11,000 “experts” signed an emergency declaration warning that energy, food and reproduction must “change immediately,” according to Bloomberg News.

Kathleen Mogelgaard, a consultant on population dynamics and climate change and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, told the Canadian site CBC News that population does play a role in climate change.

“It is a very complicated, multifaceted relationship. Population issues certainly are an important dimension of how society will unfold, how society will be able to cope with this crisis over the course of this century,” said Mogelgaard.

“But it’s not a silver bullet, and it’s certainly not the main cause of climate change. And fully addressing population growth is not, on its own, going to be able to solve the climate crisis. But it is an important piece of the puzzle,” she added.

But not all climate change activist groups agree on the population issue. The Union of Concerned Scientists, a radical activist group, has sought to dispel the connection between population and climate change.

“A misplaced focus on population growth as a key driver of past, present, and future climate change conflates a rise in emissions with an increase in people, rather than the real source of those emissions: an increase in cars, power plants, airplanes, industries, buildings, and other parts of our fossil fuel-dependent economy and lifestyles,” UCS claimed. “Implicit in this faulty framing is the notion that all people contribute significantly to heat-trapping emissions. In fact, data show (PDF) that the richest 10 percent of the world’s population contributes 50 percent of annual global warming emissions.”

Harris, throughout her speech, engaged in unfounded alarmism about natural climate change and mankind’s relatively minor effect upon it.

“And we have seen, around our country, where communities have been choked by drought, have been washed out by floods, and decimated by hurricanes,” she said. “Here in Baltimore, you have seen your skies darkened by wildfire smoke.  And you have seen the waters of the Chesapeake Bay rise, threatening homes and businesses that have stood for generations.”

“It is clear that the clock is not only ticking, it is banging.  And we must act,” she claimed.

But a 2022 study, “a critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming,” examines the data and finds that claims about natural disasters due to climate change posing a threat to human life are grossly exaggerated. Numerous types of natural disasters – from hurricanes to tornadoes to heat waves to droughts – have either increased only modestly in frequency and intensity over the last hundred years or have not increased at all.

“We need to remind ourselves that addressing climate change is not an end in itself, and that climate change is not the only problem that the world is facing,” the authors add. “The objective should be to improve human well-being in the twenty-first century, while protecting the environment as much as we can…”

Indeed, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence that nature is not posing more of a threat to mankind, but is actually posing much less of one, is the statistical fact that deaths from natural disasters have declined by 99% in the past century.

As Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) thoroughly explained in a recent hearing with Climate Czar John Kerry, the Democratic Party wants American taxpayers to foot the bill for a $1.6 quadrillion scam.

Perry further accused climate scientists of “grifting like you are.” Now that is a serious burn.

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Source: Becker News Rephrased By: InfoArmed

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