Comments on Johan Norberg “Populate or live in boredom”, 20/08/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/populate-or-live-in-boredom/story-fn59niix-1225907494898
A rather poor argument with the bottle half-empty at the best.
It is a bad mix of micro and macro issues. Can population ever increase on the earth without hitting big problems of environment sustainability and degradation?
It is a blind and poor application of scale economies without taking into account of diseconomies of scale, say those associated with the largest cities in the world. Can the size of cities ever increase without running into big problems of congestions and too little space for comfortable living?
Overall it is an argument without analysis or with poor analysis. There is no or little serious intellectual thinking involved.
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