The Population Boon
A new analysis challenges the common misconception that population growth represents a major threat to sustainable development. In fact, the world’s population may peak much lower than expected, and it is consumption by the world’s wealthiest 10% that will remain the biggest obstacle to broad-based human flourishing.
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OSLO – An easy way to start a long, heated debate is to mention global population. Thomas Malthus famously ignited furious arguments in the nineteenth century when he warned that, absent fertility-control policies, exponential population growth would outpace improvements in agriculture and cause recurrent bouts of famine and pestilence. Industrialization would postpone the crisis, but not forever.