What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.