Dennis Meadows, a Member of the Club of Rome, Hopes the ‘Necessary’ Depopulation of the Planet, Down to Just One Billion People

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MEADOWS: "In one way or another, we are so far — globally, right — so far above the population and the consumption levels which can be supported by this planet, and I know in one way or another it’s going to come back down. I don’t hope to avoid that. I hope that it can occur in a civil way, and I mean civil in a special way. Peaceful. Peace doesn’t mean that everybody’s happy, but it means a conflict isn’t solved through violence, through force, but rather in other ways. And so that’s what I hope for, that we can — I mean, the planet can support something like a billion people, maybe 2 billion, depending on how much liberty and how much material consumption you want to have. If you want more liberty and more consumption, you have to have fewer people.”