How Can Schooling Help Improve the Lives of the Poorest? The Need for Radical Reform

Raising world consumption to US levels would multiply the combustion of fossil fuels fifty times, the use of iron a hundred times, the use of other metals two hundred times. By the time these levels are reached the standards in the US would again have tripled, and the population would also have tripled. Such projections lead to results as absurd as the premises from which they come.