This is why the Earth is screwed. And no, your Tesla and digital thermostat don't help.

[meadowlander]

8. Overpopulation is the tinder. Capitalism is the match.

If we had a rational global economic and political system we would be able to feed, clothe and house 8 billion people without triggering catastrophic climate change.

The problem is overpopulation plus:
1. a mindset of unlimited capacity of the economy to grow to accommodate human wants rather than human needs
2. irrational division of political power into nation states only looking after their own interests instead of cooperating
3. legacy inequalities from colonialism and racism
4. religion encouraging people to breed like bunnies to increase their power base and don't mind the unlimited consumption because God will sort out the consequences

This isn't a problem caused by too many Chinese and Indian people wanting what Westerners have.

It's a problem caused by Western capitalist and theocratic ideologies spreading around the globe. And the solution is to challenge that ideology and those assumptions, to work together, and to do our individual part to decrease our emissions. If those 8 billion people didn't buy shit they didn't need and went out of their way to make low emissions choices for the things they do need we'd be looking at a very different future scenario.