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New Scientist

Peak planet: Are we starting to consume less?

 

“That leads demographer Joel Cohen to predict that ‘many of us may live to see population peak in the middle of this century.’ If so, that would fulfill the first necessary condition to begin to reduce our demands on the planet.”

“An analysis by Jesse Ausubel and Paul Waggoner of Rockefeller University in New York City suggests that this trend of more economic bang per resource buck is widespread among developing economies, following an initial ‘cheap and dirty’ phase of growth.”