"Having outgrown the Earth’s carrying capacity, our species’s appetite threatened to poison the environment upon which it subsisted. Our rapacity could only terminate in a wave of mass death."
Prosperity reduces fertility. In a prosperous world, humanity would cease to overgrow Earth's carrying capacity, and would most likely decline grad…
"Having outgrown the Earth’s carrying capacity, our species’s appetite threatened to poison the environment upon which it subsisted. Our rapacity could only terminate in a wave of mass death."
Prosperity reduces fertility. In a prosperous world, humanity would cease to overgrow Earth's carrying capacity, and would most likely decline gradually rather than "in a wave of mass death" in Stalin's and Mao's and Pol Pot's style. But prosperity depends upon energy, which the "Population Bomb" crowd rejects.
"Having outgrown the Earth’s carrying capacity, our species’s appetite threatened to poison the environment upon which it subsisted. Our rapacity could only terminate in a wave of mass death."
Prosperity reduces fertility. In a prosperous world, humanity would cease to overgrow Earth's carrying capacity, and would most likely decline gradually rather than "in a wave of mass death" in Stalin's and Mao's and Pol Pot's style. But prosperity depends upon energy, which the "Population Bomb" crowd rejects.