tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post6787548569730098201..comments2024-03-11T00:31:41.186-07:00Comments on The Oregon Economics Blog: Eco-nomics: PopulationPatrick Emersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242234148546323374noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-46531393164049408222009-10-30T14:56:36.004-07:002009-10-30T14:56:36.004-07:00Do you really want to live like a typical person i...Do you really want to live like a typical person in Sub-Saharan Africa? I doubt it. We get to consume nutrition, health care, education, nature and a lot of other good things as well as resources. In fact it is the richest that tend to create and consume the most efficient technologies. So the challenge is not to get us 'poor' but how to get the rest 'rich' in a way that does not destroy the earth.Patrick Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242234148546323374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-41911090155910953112009-10-30T13:22:49.698-07:002009-10-30T13:22:49.698-07:00Given that a person in the US consumes some 20-50 ...Given that a person in the US consumes some 20-50 times the resources of someone in the global South, it would seem rather more fruitful to focus on creating population decline in the US and Europe than stopping growth in Africa.<br /><br />I'd rather see us bring our resource consumption down by 80% and have the global South meet us at that level. Otherwise, population growth isn't a worry - growth of consumption is far, far more dangerous. Even if the global population stopped growing today, and consumption grew to just European levels, we'd be even more screwed than if there were 20 billion Africans consuming at their current overall level.GeoGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02596534612535469564noreply@blogger.com