@inbook{10.2307/j.cttq95b4.6, ISBN = {9780691154954}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.cttq95b4.6}, abstract = {Each year, 136 million people are born while fewer than half that number die. If this rate of growth continues, in just sixty-three years the world’s population will double, while the world’s resources remain finite. Overpopulation has been blamed, rightly or wrongly, for deforestation, air pollution, water pollution, global warming, urban sprawl, and the fall of ancient civilizations.¹ And yet, what can one person do to change this situation? Any single person declining to have children will have statistically zero impact on the overpopulation problem. If the person had hoped to enjoy a life full of children and grandchildren, then}, bookauthor = {Lee Cronk and Beth L. Leech}, booktitle = {Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation}, pages = {47--71}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {The Logic of Logic, and Beyond}, year = {2013} }