7 Billion People, 30 Gigatons of CO2, 1 Warming Planet: Population & Climate in the 21st Century | The Crux | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it

The world is now home to 7 billion people, each of whom contributes to the carbon emissions that are slowly cooking the globe. To find out how growing population affects our plans to deal with climate change, we talked with Princeton’s Robert Socolow, co-creator of one of the best models for thinking about how to prevent climate change.