The environment needs more people, not fewer

The journalist Richard Fisher helpfully showed that some 100 billion people have lived since our species appeared. Nearly 8 billion are alive today, but these numbers are dwarfed by the 135 billion likely to be born in the next millennium, let alone the 6 or 7 trillion who might be born over the next 50,000 years.5 Ignoring their lives and needs is

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scientist, author, Senior Fellow at the Post-Carbon Institute, and one of the foremost analysts of our energy future, explained it to me: In short, our rate of consumption is overshooting our planet’s sustainable sources of production. According to the Global Footprint Network, humanity is currently using the equivalent of 1.75 Earths to provide th

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