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The following excerpt originally appeared in Key issues for attention from ecological economists, an article in Environment and Development Economics 13: 1-20 ©2008 Cambridge University Press

"The general public, businessmen, governments, and many business economists appear to believe that population and per capita consumption can grow indefinitely, and that eventually all economic inequities can be eliminated by growth itself.  To me and my colleagues, this is an entirely unwarranted assumption - and debunking it may be the single most important task of environmental and resource economists."

By PAUL R. EHRLICH
Department of Biological Science, Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305
USA Email:  pre@stanford.edu

Also see:
The Most Overpopulated Nation, by Paul Ehrlich
(An NPG Forum Paper)