I read yuor ‘deep green’ comment on the GP website about population. I too remember Paul Ehrlich’s book and the debate it created and, while I would agree that population growth is indeed a serious ecological problem – the reality is that population growth drops with increased education and lifting people out of poverty and I would suggest that adding these two to advancing women’s rights and the avialability of contraception – in fact I would argue that education and poverty alleviation are pre-requisites for achieving the latter two.

All the best,
Paul