World Scientists' Warning to Humanity
1992 document about human carbon footprint / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" was a document written in 1992 by Henry W. Kendall and signed by about 1,700 leading scientists. Twenty-five years later, in November 2017, 15,364 scientists signed "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice" written by William J. Ripple and seven co-authors calling for, among other things, human population planning, and drastically diminishing per capita consumption of fossil fuels, meat, and other resources.[lower-alpha 1] The second notice has more scientist cosigners and formal supporters than any other journal article ever published.[1]