Sustainability Southeast » Articles http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org toward a sustainable human culture Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en How to slow the population clock http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/2006/09/13/how-to-slow-the-population-clock/ http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/2006/09/13/how-to-slow-the-population-clock/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:48:02 +0000 editor http://sustains.preview.summersault.net/2006/09/13/how-to-slow-the-population-clock/ From the Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2006:

For decades now, demographers and economists have warned that the number of people on earth is growing too fast to be “sustainable.” But for many, this story is somewhat old, perhaps alarmist.

“We have sort of a cornucopia fantasy,” says Russell Hopfenberg, a consulting faculty member at Duke University in Durham, N.C. “People say, ‘Not to worry. Technology will solve the problem.’ ”

Mr. Hopfenberg isn’t so sure. “Don’t get lulled into complacency,” he says.

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