Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970212092143.42576D-100000@dante10.u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:27:45 -0800 From: Thor Skov <mailto:raijin@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> Subject: Re: the Population MYTH...until when???????? To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, B. Diamond wrote:> I certainly did not mean to imply that peasants are having too many
children--I merely used them as an example of folks who are "living lightly" as it were, but even if they don't own two cars, a rolex, and a vacation home on Maui, 15-20 billion people is too many people, period.
Dear BD,
While am in no way advocating population growth (the oppsotie actually) I'm interested in by what calculation you say that 15-20 billion is too many people, period.
This type of pronouncement is a really difficult thing to substantiate (unless of course it is just your personal preference). If it is possible to develop a society in which people consume a whole lot less, have a much smaller per capita impact on the global ecology, then why necessarily would that number be too many?
Thor Skov