[lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 7 13:52:36 PDT 2006


Charles Brown wrote:


>CB: Regardless of global warming, if the rate of increase of the population
>were slowed, wouldn't that take some pressure off women who are having and
>caring for all the babies and children ?

Of course - and even Larry Summers agreed with this when he was chief economist at the World Bank. But the basic anti-Malthusian insight is that distress produces population, not that population produces distress.

Doug



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