So everybody should just stay poor, George?

Although it may seem peculiar in today's often polarised, you're either with me or against me world, I don't think either George Monbiot or "Planet of the Humans" are all right or all wrong.

"Planet of the Humans" is hugely flawed, and well done George, for pointing out some of those flaws. Gibbs and Moore were purposely misleading on solar panels and wind turbines. George has written a climate change book saying all the airlines have to be shut down and we all have to grow our own food, so he knows substantial changes have to be made. I guess he thinks those kinds of changes are easier to make than no government benefits for more than 2 kids and net zero immigration. I don't.

"Planet of the Humans" didn't get everything wrong, though. Addressing growth in population is important to solving climate change, pollution, habitat loss and all the other environmental problems.

The fact is, though, that we probably need population stabilisation, George's ideas and a bunch of new and better ideas to give our children and grandchildren a world environment that we can be proud to have passed on.