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Look at our consumption and waste and its impact on the environment. I'm sure we can do many creative things to ameliorate the impacts and that is what we must do. The people are here.

Sure - but that's a question of policy. It's not a inevitable consequence of increasing population.

I mean, look at the U.S. Since 1970, we've added 130 million people - more than an 50% increase in our population. Yet in most aspects, the environment is better than it was back then, thanks to the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and many other environmental regulations. Which is the paradox of economic development - wealthy economically developed countries generally tend to have more protective environmental regulations than poorer developing ones. They also tend to have vastly lower population growth rates as well.

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