Population, resources, and the environment : the situation in 2018 / Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich -- Food for 10 billion …"This timely collection of 15 essays addresses the relationships between human population growth (and consumption); the … need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major …

Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously … conditions and principles used to evaluate variable population criteria. In particular, it avoids the repugnant conclusion even … when the critical level is zero. -- Social evaluation ; population ethics ; critical-level utilitarianism ; social …

Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously … conditions and principles used to evaluate variable population criteria. In particular, it avoids the repugnant conclusion even … when the critical level is zero. -- social evaluation ; population ethics ; critical-level utilitarianism ; social …

We contribute to population ethics by proposing and axiomatizing rank-discounted critical-level generalized … utilitarianism (RDCLU). Population ethics is needed for evaluation of policies, e.g., concerning climate change, where population … avoids serious objections raised against other variable population criteria. In particular, it escapes both the Repugnant …