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What Are the Implications of the Phrase Optimal Sustainable Population

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What are the implications of the phrase optimal sustainable population, considering the facts that: 1) 97 percent of future growth will come from developing countries, and 2) the environmental footprint of a population is dependent on the affluence of the population? Has the human population been able to achieve what it has achieved because only a small portion of the population is affluent? What will happen as more countries move from under-developed to developing and finally to developed?


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