Even if one is a teetotaler or a vegetarian that level of affluence is desirable, and would serve by itself to rule out populations at or above today's level. What really must be stabilized is total consumption, which of course is population times per capita consumption. Both of the latter factors must be reduced. Daly, cited above in note 1, chapter 2. 4. Dr. Makhijani describes a situation in India in which a pollution permit program might increase, not decrease, pollution.
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