Kolk, Martin , Arrhenius, Gustaf , Fairbrother, Malcolm , Roussos, Joe | 2022
IFFS Policy Paper: 2022:1
With the rapid rise of the global human population, long term consequences materialize. These concern the welfare of future generations and the safety of eco-systems on the planet. Forecasts tell with fair certainty that the number of inhabitants on Earth will increase in the near term. There is a need to investigate the question of how many people could sustainably live on Earth, given a certain level of human well-being and the resources available. If there is a global necessity to pursue a stable or decreasing change in population size, the other question remaining is how this can be achieved in an ethically acceptable way.
