Smaller human population in 2100 could importantly reduce the risk of climate catastrophe

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Dean Spears. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015.

. 2015 May 5;112(18):E2270.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501763112. Epub 2015 Apr 6.

¹ Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi 110016, India dean@riceinstitute.org.

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