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> and population growth

That will be a very hard sell, as most of the people that count and actually take the decisions that matter still don't believe in Malthus.

> The west did it (via progress on education, etc).

Unfortunately that is still not enough as long as those same Western consumers will keep, well, consuming as much as they do. Problem is that changing today's consumption patterns will most probably have huge (negative) economic consequences for most of the world's population.



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