> By the middle of this century there will be two or three billion more people on Earth ..this is only inevitable if we choose to make it so. The laissez-faire

> By the middle of this century there will be two or three billion more people on Earth ..this is only inevitable if we choose to make it so. The laissez-faire approach to population growth prioritises sparing the feelings of current liberal observers over the happiness of the future inhabitants of earth and the quality of the environment. Whatever mitigation measures we take, a global population of 12 billion are inevitably going to have far nastier lives than 3 billion could.