It’s Not a Numbers Problem
It’s Not a Numbers Problem / June, 2015
"Give our species some credit: We’ve learned a lot in the half-century since Paul Ehrlich warned that overpopulation would spell our doom.
Start with the term 'overpopulation.' It implies that there are too many people in relation to the planet’s resources, a concept that has fallen out of favor. We now know that resources are distributed so inequitably, and used so wastefully, that it is virtually impossible to determine how many people the planet can sustain." (
Laurie Mazur, It’s Not a Numbers Problem,
The New York Times, June, 2015)