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[spendocrat]

Dr. Albert Bartlett (Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, University of Colorado):

Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

This seems

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[killer_raincoat]

the more people you have the more resources are consumed.

[spendocrat]

That's a good argument for the extinction of the human race.

[spendocrat]

More seriously: What you say is not necessarily the case. One large city can deliver its services more efficiently than three smaller towns with the same total population. Advances in technology also allow us to consume less resources with the same or similar standard of living (recycling, for example, or LED lamps in place of tungsten bulbs, and gas lights before that

[freelandfy]

Great site, very impressive.