title: Three views. (Population growth).
abstract: Although it is increasingly clear that a reliance merely on family planning is insufficient to meet the population growth challenge, it is also dangerously simplistic to rely on a broadly defined development effort.  Insisting that development and redistribution of wealth must come before reduction in fertility is not only wildly unrealistic in its implementation, but also it begs the question that the earth can survive this number of people even if a  utopian situation is achieved where each has his or her own fair and equal share of the pie.  Our world is finite.  Whether we adjust to this fact by a reduction in the birthrate or an increase in the death rate is the real question.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chamberlin
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D011153:Population; D011155:Population Control; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D011640:Public Policy
keywords: Demographic Factors; Policy; Population; Population Control; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Population Policy; Social Policy