Time to change the way we think about prosperity: Joel Cohen
(NEWSER) - The world’s population is set to hit 7 billion within a week, according to UN estimates, and we’re looking at 10 billion people by century’s end. And that raises a new challenge for Westerners, who must must "shake off, at last, the view that large and growing numbers of people represent power and prosperity," writes author and population expert Joel Cohen in the New York Times . This idea that "more workers, more consumers, more soldiers" would lead to a prosperous nation is a long-running one—and, now, one that we have no more use for. More»
