David MacClement

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· Even at over 7 billion people with the rich consuming far too much, it is possible for everyone on earth to live sustainably, though at a very low level, probably US$2,000 per year. In the 1990s, paying half our property rates and all my food but no other household costs, I lived on US$1,350 per year not counting dentistry (5 gold caps).

· We all could live at about US$5,000 per year,

(a) if the rich (most Americans and about half the OECD) used/consumed about a fifth of what we do now, and

(b) if, in about a hundred years, the human population has reduced to between 2 and 4 billion, by natural deaths and reduced birth rate (my three children have less-than-one child per woman average - it can and is being done).