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“We cannot hide away from human population growth, because it underlies so many of the other problems. All these things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if the world was the size of the population that there was 500 years ago.”

-- Goodall at 2002 WEF panel discussion on Amazon rainforest

The population 500 years ago was around 500 million. The only way we return to this level is de-industrialization.

Paul Ehrlich wrote "The Population Bomb" almost 60 years ago - all of his predictions turned out to be dead wrong.

parent boxerab 1 year ago

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