Re: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Charles Brown wrote:

CB: Regardless of global warming, if the rate of increase of the population were slowed, wouldn’t that take some pressure off women who are having and caring for all the babies and children ?

Of course - and even Larry Summers agreed with this when he was chief economist at the World Bank. But the basic anti-Malthusian insight is that distress produces population, not that population produces distress.

Doug

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