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optimum population

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optimum population

The number of people that will produce the highest per capita economic return given the resources available, and their full utilization. Should the population rise or fall from the optimum the output per capita, and standard of living, will fall.
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Byline: The Register-Guard A report urging the adoption of aggressive family- planning programs as a means of combatting global warming is almost antique in its Malthusian reasoning: "There is no possibility of drastically reducing total carbon emissions, while at the same time paying no attention to the drastic increases in carbon emitters," said Roger Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, the British group that prepared the report.
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