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Only if we stop producing so many people. (Good luck with that.)

That's been happening almost everywhere for the last half century. Plenty of places are below replacement population growth.

And yet we get another billion people every 15 years.

That is mostly Africa nowadays. The average age there is 19.3.

Not all people are equal in the carbon equation. Per capita consumption mattes.

We can also try to get the people we do produce to consume less…

Yes, it's not either-or, but both-and. On its own, consuming and producing less probably isn't enough.