Growing global population: burden or boon to the environment?

The following is an excerpt from Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change, short-listed along with four other books for this year’s Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year by a Canadian. The winner will be announced on May 1 in Toronto.

Chemist and geographer Daniel B. Luten observed that since the late 18th century ‘the question of limits to growth and optimism and pessimism regarding the human prospect [has been] debated without consensus.’ The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY JOANNA SZURMAK, PIERRE DESROCHERS

April 17, 2019

Historical overview As the chemist and geographer Daniel B. Luten observed on the eve of the famous 1980 Julian Simon-Paul Ehrlich wager, since the late 18th century “the question of limits to growth and optimism and pessimism regarding the human prospect [has ...

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