zero population growth
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Five years ago, the University of Washington Urban Freight Lab predicted a doubling of goods deliveries and truck trips in the city center by 2023 — even with zero population growth.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023
Sheryl — a practical and even-keeled teacher turned housewife — states plainly the influence of zero population growth theories and Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s 1968 book “The Population Bomb.”
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023
“We heard about this in the late 1960s with zero population growth crowd who warned that we needed to limit our families or doomsday would come. Now, we worry about replacement rates.”
From Fox News • Feb. 27, 2019
Other developed countries, such as Italy, have zero population growth.
From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018
Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
