And it wasn't even an environmentalist bringing it up. You can't say no to growth. The oldest woman in the world died recently and she left 156 people behind her. That's a fact today and that will be a fact tomorrow. . . Quite a vision.
Development can be the ongoing evolution of something.
Growth means the physical increase of something. It is this physical increase that consumes and depletes the environment and threatens our quality of life. The truth is, beyond some point growth cannot be sustained. Unmanaged growth is the ideology of the cancer cell and we must confront how to deal with both regional and global demographic realities. Globally, population sustainability and stabilization is an essential step in arresting the destruction of natural resources and ensuring that the needs of people can be met humanely.