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

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.