Honestly with the amount of degrowth friendly opinion pieces nature published in the last 2 years, I'm surprised they take the complete opposite approach. They're really trying to open the debate to very broad and different viewpoints, and I think it's healthy. I don't know enough about this researcher to understand how powerful/influential his comments might be
31k citations, h-index of 81 [0] Cambridge professor & seems to have very serious experience in building models of climate variation across time. He recently published a pretty alarming finding about extreme weather events, so he's clearly not a climate change denier [1]