Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.