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Population growth must stop : Comments
By Gary Peters, published 12/7/2010Both population and consumption are parts of the problem - neither can be ignored and both are exacerbating the human impact on Earth.
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And this makes it OK to have more people on the planet just because Dr Ehrlich was supposedly wrong, give or take a few years.
What about the devastating effect all these 'better off' people have on the rest of the inhabitants of our piece of rock, you know, plants and animals which live in specialist niches?
Why do we need one more person than is required to advance technology and quality of life for us all? There is no way every person now on the planet can possible enjoy the quality of life they deserve. Do the sums, it is not possible, so why increase the population. When every girl now born in Mumbai or Mexico City can get a University Education if she wishes then you can raise the world population and not before!