Every year or two a similar article is posted.
Its obviously not a real problem. They could get rid of them in a year by selling licenses to Americans if they wanted to get rid of them.
If.
Accidentally on purpose waiting until they are over-run so they can sell more licenses a couple of years from now or waiting until some alliance of dimwitted effeminate urbanites and Uncle Sugar send them enough money to “stop the environmental holocaust”.
That sounds like a good play.