Here is a letter to a Minnesota newspaper where a reader responds to arguments for population growth similar to those made in The Corbett Report. He states, "[w]e don't need more people on the planet, we need to change the economic system."

Counterpoint: In truth, overpopulation is blighting human lives. (Star Tribune)

Rather than insisting that humanity must pursue unlimited consumption on a finite planet, we need the world's finest economic minds to determine how capitalism can be modified to function at steady state, while keeping the benefits of free market dynamics. Innovation can, in principle, continue indefinitely; expanding material consumption cannot.

Economic systems are human creations and thus can be changed, while the fundamental physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the Earth cannot.

Cowen laments the potential "failure to take full advantage of the planet's capacity to sustain human life." However, multiple analyses have concluded that the human population has likely exceeded the sustainable carrying capacity of planet Earth already and, without doubt, all of today's world population cannot live as North Americans and Europeans live — there are simply not enough resources. [Cont...]

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