Population and Poverty. Article by Donella Meadows Population and Poverty. Everyone sighs, agrees and changes the subject. Nothing can be done about population growth. That helpless response has always bothered me.
People make populations grow.
Surely people could make populations stop growing. If we didn't shrug if off, if we looked hard at the problem, if we really wanted to solve it, it seems to me we should be able to do so. Now a powerful little book has come along that confirms my hunch. That organization is a think-tank for a bioregion, the Pacific Northwest from northern California to southern Alaska. The statistics and examples in the book are taken from that region.