I think not. Let us apply a throughput concept to the sustainability of human societies. Small is Beautiful Within a sustainable society, humans will take small amounts of throughput per capita and will have small families. Our thinking now runs into the vast areas of human complications which the economic sciences skillfully avoid, externalities. We are looking at the full range of human wishes and preferences far beyond market choices.
Small families are easy to define.
We know that human population cannot grow infinitely, at least not in the 21st century. We may, therefore, define desired small families as a total fertility rate of two or less achieved by voluntary choices. With this easily measured small family standard, we may began to look about for societies which take small amounts of throughput per capita searching among those societies which have small families. By choosing a stable population of ten million or more, we will incorporate within our sample the desired small family characteristic plus a full mix of human behaviors including all less desirable human traits. Actual measurement of the throughput flowing into and out of this human civilization will no doubt be slow and tiresome work.