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> Again using back-of-the-envelope calculations, he asserted in one of his posts that 1.4 billion newcomers to the industrialized club would “completely change
by naringas 8y ago
> Again using back-of-the-envelope calculations, he asserted in one of his posts that 1.4 billion newcomers to the industrialized club would “completely change the face of “developed economies”, which currently cover just 800-900 million people.
But can the limited resources of the planet accomodate 1,400 million more people consuming that way?
more than their apparent racism, I am worried about their seeming lack of environmentalism
- ironchief 8y agoMalthus is wrong and "more people" = "lack of environmentalism" is zero-sum thinking. Instead consider the positive-sum "We need more people to solve bigger problems" that follows from Esther Boserup's theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Boserup#Work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Boserup#Work
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