also believe in growth. Check your average 5-year plan for details. And, many people somewhere in between also believe in growth...if for no other reason that there are, every year, more and more people to feed, clothe and house via that growth, and the health and vitality of a society is and has always been inextricably tied to the vitality of its demography and its socio-economic progress, and this for many reasons not limited to defence of the homeland, cultural achievement, and social and material well-being of its people whose reach is extended (in global influence, prosperity, territory and so forth) in direct proportion to the success of all of the above.

As long as human history has been recorded this has been so.  

Square the circle of population growth and you can perhaps square the circle of sustainable growth but, and I overgeneralise of course, oddly enough, those most likely to expound upon the virtues of sustainability, even negative growth, are also those who will, in my part of the world, be those most likely to push the sort of multiculturalism of the sort that accepts, in an otherwise purely secular society founded on equality, women wearing a burkha in a public square or otherwise treated as second class citizens. And we all know that one of the most likely precursors to sustainable populations (short of PRC-style force, which of course these people also tend to eschew) is women's equality, particularly (but not exclusively) via education.


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