“A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.”
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.