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Never mind the population explosion.
For at least 650 years, since the time of the Black Plague, the total number of people on Earth has headed in one direction: up. In the modern era, this has occasioned much panic. Environmentalists have insisted that more people means more ecological damage, more resource depletion, more energy drain. People, they implied, and sometimes stated outright, are the ultimate form of pollution.
Consider the 1999 book Beyond Malthus, by the environmentalist Worldwatch Institute. Worldwatch is no marginal organization of Green flakes--it is a media favorite funded by some of the most important foundations in America, including Ford, Rockefeller, MacArthur, Hewlett, ...
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