Population and Environment

We have always argued that environmental movements must be integrated, holistic, and must also take into account and consideration, the needs and requirements of people in developing countries. We also need to launch the “Low populations for the environment” movement (LOPE movement) as relatively low birth rates can lead to an “Evergreen demographic boon”. We also simultaneously need to launch a “High-quality human resources movement” for better quality human resources. Of course, birth rates are falling all over the world at varying speeds, and in some cases, birth rates are already alarmingly low. This is a cause for concern for those nations. This is not always the case; populations are still exploding in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. This fact is generally brushed under the carpet because of Eurocentric scholarship and the media. Attempts to increase low birth rates have been tried since ancient Rome when Plebians had low birth rates. However, such initiatives and endeavours have mostly failed. We must also try to improve quality of human resources in parallel. This will be a make or break situation in today’s world, and in the era of an orange economy. Read our following papers, and align them with our papers and books on education and pedagogy. We had also spoken extensively about an ideal total fertility rate, and this must vary from context to context and fro situation to situation. There are many solutions to battle relatively low fertility rates, and we had discussed these as well.

The following is the list of our publications on this subject

1 Capitalizing on the Many Benefits of Low Birth Rates: Why We Need a “Low Populations for the Environment” Movement and a “High-quality Human Resource” Movement SSRN, December 2024
2 Dismantling the Population Composition Fallacy: Why We Need to Treat Low Fertility as the New Normal and Work on Improving Education Systems Instead SSRN, January 2025
3 On the Ever-expanding Per Capita Human Environmental Footprint: Why We Need to Treat Low Fertility as the New Normal and Work around It Instead SSRN, January 2025
4 Population Management and the Environment: Why We Need Population Management Strategies to Be Much Better Integrated with Environmental Movements SSRN, January 2025
5 Introducing the “Human Trusteeship of the Planet” Concept: A Crucial Advancement in General and Environmental Anthropology IJISRT, August 2024
6 The Degrowth Delusion: Why Technology and Sustainable Development Models Alone Will Solve the World’s Environmental Woes in the Long Term SSRN, August 2025

Also read our book

1 Sound population management ad infinitum: How relatively low fertility rates can lead to an “Evergreen demographic boon” Google books
2 Human trusteeship of the planet: Escalating the environmental movement to the next level Google books
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