Greenpeace Co-Founder: Achieving Net Zero Emissions Means At Least 50% of the Population Would Die Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore has said that achieving Net Zero carbon emissions globally would lead to at least 50% of the population dying.
If we actually did it, my point would be that if we actually achieve net zero, at least 50% of the population would die of hunger and disease, Moore said in a recent interview with BizNewsTv.
And no doubt about it, because of just one thing, which is nitrogen-based fertilizer, which won two Nobel Prizes, he continued. One for developing the process of combining natural gas with nitrogen in the atmosphere to make ammonia. And the other one, the other Nobel Prize, was for the person who scaled it up to an industrial level.