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Population, Consumption, And Procreation: Ethical Implications For Humanity’S Future, Trevor Grant Hedberg
Population, Consumption, And Procreation: Ethical Implications For Humanity’S Future, Trevor Grant Hedberg
Doctoral Dissertations
Human population growth is a contributing factor to a number of significant environmental problems. My dissertation addresses both the negative environmental effects of human population growth and what ought to be done to curtail them. Specifically, I defend two main claims: (1) we have a duty to reduce human population, particularly those of us with large ecological footprints, and (2) morally permissible social policies can satisfy this duty.
I begin by addressing three well-known issues in population ethics that could serve as the basis for objections to reducing population: the Repugnant Conclusion, the Non-Identity Problem, and the Asymmetry. I then …