World's Biomass Human vs ...

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5. Our economic system is based upon ever expanding demand for goods and services-most easily acheived by population growth

If we continue this course, Rev. Malthus will, in spite of now over two centuries of denial, eventually be proven correct: That population will grow until reaching limits of sustainability since improvements to general living conditions have historically simply encouraged more population growth.

If one is unfamiliar with his work, this wiki article is as good a place to start as any for discussion of his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population and of its evolution through his last contribution in 1826.

We chose to not add to population growth. Most of our siblings made another choice.