There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

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

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

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

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