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Population growth and climate change: Addressing the overlooked threat multiplier.

@article{Dodson2020PopulationGA,
  title={Population growth and climate change: Addressing the overlooked threat multiplier.},
  author={Jenna C. Dodson and Patr{\'i}cia D{\'e}rer and Philip Cafaro and Frank G{\"o}tmark},
  journal={The Science of the total environment},
  year={2020},
  volume={748},
  pages={
          141346
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:225035992}
}
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