“In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.”
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
