[smitty1e]

> As a result of uncontrolled economic (and population) growth, our ecology is sick, and getting sicker every day.

I can get halfway to agreement here, but UKL's assertion invites the question of who is in control?

More pointedly, how do we agree upon the operating point and stabilization mechanisms?

THAT is the sticky wicket.

[inglor_cz]

Yes, I suspect that if we let the power-hungry types control the world even more than today, we may get an even worse dystopia.

"You, you and you do not get permit for procreation. You, you and you are not allowed to leave your village ever."

At the very worst, we may get Khmer Rouge-like program of violent degrowth and return to agricultural roots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge