Reducing human numbers and the size of our economies is necessary to avoid a mass extinction and share Earth justly with other species

@article{Cafaro2022ReducingHN,
  title={Reducing human numbers and the size of our economies is necessary to avoid a mass extinction and share Earth justly with other species},
  author={Philip Cafaro},
  journal={Philosophia},
  year={2022},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:247433264}
}
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