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Executive Summary The Resourceful Earth is a response to Global 2000 Report to the President, which is “dead wrong” in its frightening environmental and social predictions. They summarize the findings of Global 2000 using two paragraphs from its own summary: “If present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now. Serious stresses involving population, resources, and environment are clearly …

…injudicious warnings have derived from government agencies. . . . It is a matter of great public importance that we reverse these patterns of the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. public must come to hear the truth that conditions have been getting better rather than worse . . .” (42-43). They oppose any effort to use government action to stabilize population in the U.S. or elsewhere. Population control efforts “are not warranted by any facts about resources and population” (43).