The environment needs more people, not fewer
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The environment needs more people, not fewer
The stock market is at record highs and life expectancy in the U.S. is decreasing. In the richest nation in the richest time in human history, 43% of Americans can’t pay their bills. Many of our most significant societal problems are also, not coincidentally, extremely profitable industries (fossil fuels, junk food, prescription drugs, and for-prof... See more
Yancey Strickler • Page Not Found – Collab Fund
There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
As for concerns around overpopulation, historically, these fears have been completely backwards. Every time, it's education, technology and innovation that lifts us out of poverty and saves us from imminent apocalypse, while population controls and 'de-growth' initiatives lead to stomach-churning atrocities.