Author: Lindsey Grant
Lindsey Grant is a former National Security Council staff member and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Population Affairs. He has written extensively on population issues, much of it for or with the support of Negative Population Growth, Inc. His books include Elephants in the Volkswagen, a multidisciplinary effort to describe what U.S. population size would be desirable, How Many Americans?, and Too Many People: The Case for Reversing Growth.
Optimum Population
Overcoming ‘Growthmania’ The very idea of defining an “optimum population” challenges centuries of economic and political assumptions that growth is by definition a good thing. So be it. The challenge of overcoming that assumption is at least as important as any optimum population number we may calculate. How ‘Growthmania’ Began Before the 1300s, unlimited growth …