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Environmental Change & Security Program (ECSP)

November 2010

"It's very hard to put a number on a quantity that depends on future events, processes we don't understand, and values that may change over time," said Joel E. Cohen of the Rockefeller University in this interview with ECSP. "That doesn't mean we have no problems and it doesn't mean there's nothing we can do."

There are three schools of thought or proposed "panaceas," when it comes to balancing natural resources and population, said Cohen: a bigger pie (new technology to increase productivity), fewer forks (reduced consumption), and better manners (reduced irrational market inequities and better governance).

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2010/12/watch-joel-e-cohen-on-solving-the-resource-population-equation-in-the-developing-world/

How Many People Can the Earth Support

By Joel E. Cohen

Published by W.W. Norton

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-31495-3/

Paperback

September 1996

ISBN 978-0-393-31495-3

544 pages

“The definitive work on the global population problem. Cohen, one of the foremost theoretical biologists in the world, has brought extraordinary analytic powers and humanitarian learning to the topic, and those who care about the human future will do well to read his conclusions.” — Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University

“It would be hard to conceive of a better book for those interested in a scholarly and nonideological review and analysis of population issues. . . . Fascinating and lucid. . . . A gem of a book.” — William D. Nordhaus, Yale University, New York Times Book Review

“A probing, scholarly analysis of the population issue in all its complexity. . . . An enduring resource book.” — Thomas E. Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution

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