Durant wrote:
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> > According to scientists,
> > the pie is shrinking as the number seeking slices is increasing.
> >
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> Could you clarify on what basis such assumption is made?
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Not assumption, measured judgement of thousands of senior scientists:
see http://dieoff.org/page1.htm
SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
RS AND NAS STATEMENT is the official 1992 statement of the Royal Society
and the National Academy of Sciences.
WORLD SCIENTISTS' WARNING TO HUMANITY is from the Union of
Concerned Scientists in 1992.
WORLD SCIENTISTS' CALL FOR ACTION AT THE KYOTO CLIMATE
SUMMIT
Science Summit" on World Population: A Joint Statement by 58 of the
World's
Scientific Academies.
ESA Passes Resolution on Human Population from the Ecological Society of
America (1994)
AND FOOD SPECIFIC:
THE MASSIVE MOVEMENT TO MARGINALIZE THE MODERN
MALTHUSIAN MESSAGE, by Albert A. Bartlett. This is a revised version of
an article that was published in The Social Contract Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring
1998,
Pgs. 239 - 251
LAND, ENERGY AND WATER: THE CONSTRAINTS GOVERNING IDEAL
U.S. POPULATION SIZE by David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel (1991)
link to U.S. FOOD PRODUCTION THREATENED BY RAPID POPULATION
GROWTH, the Pimentels (1997)
link to Food Security for a Growing World Population 200 Years After
Malthus, Still an Unsolved Problem
Optimum Human Population Size, by Gretchen C. Daily
Restoring Value to the WorId's Degraded Lands, by Gretchen C. Daily
(1995)
An exploratory model of the impact of rapid climate change on the world
food
situation, by Grechen C. Daily and Paul R. Ehrlich (1990)
FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-FULL REPORT by David
Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro Istituto of Nazionale
della
Nutrizione, Rome. November 21, 1994
CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXPANSION OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY by
Henery W Kindall and David Pimentel (1994)
Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid , by Joseph Fletcher (1991)
THE CORNUCOPIAN FALLACIES by Lindsey Grant (1992)
IMPACT OF POPULATION GROWTH ON FOOD SUPPLIES AND
ENVIRONMENT by David Pimentel, Xuewen Huang, Ana Cordova, and Marcia
Pimentel (February, 1996)
KERMIT OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Food Supply and World Population,
by David Pimentel (March, 6, 1995)
Putting the Bite on Planet Earth, by Don Hinrichson, Oct. 1994
ENERGY AND POPULATION: Transitional Issues and Eventual Limits. by Paul
J. Werbos (1993?)
FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY-EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY by David Pimentel of Cornell University and Mario Giampietro
Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome. Executive Summary Released
November 21, 1994
How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection, by
T.
Michael Maher, March 1997
Negative Population Growth, by John B. Hall, Sept. 1996
The Food "Surplus": a Staple Illusion of Economics; a Cruel Illusion for
Populations, by Jim C. Fandrem, Winter, 1988
Rethinking the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence and
Technology,
by Thomas Dietz and Eugene A. Rosa (1994)
THE TIGHTENING CONFLICT: POPULATION, ENERGY USE, AND THE
ECOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE, by Mario Giampietro and David Pimentel (1994)
LIVING WITHIN OUR ENVIRONMENTAL MEANS: Natural Resources And
THE LAST OASIS is a Worldwatch book review.
NET LOSS is a Worldwatch book review.
TOP OF THE NINTH, by Joel Campbell
