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Population Policy and the U.S. Constitution

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Abstract

One of the most important changes that the American people are currently undergoing concerns assumptions about the world around them. These assumptions help constitute a mental map with which to perceive and deal with experience.1 Traditionally, Americans have assumed that the human species could dominate nature, that their ability to change the world was unlimited, and that all problems were solvable. Experience is making these assumptions untenable, and new assumptions are gradually being adopted. The new assumptions emphasize that the human species is part of a complex community of many interdependent animal and plant species on the planet, that interdependence creates feedback within the community and sometimes results in unintended consequences flowing from a given action, and that change and growth have physical and biological limits. These assumptions, which stem from the branch of biological science known as ecology, encourage a recognition of the problems arising from the increase in human numbers, because increased population has created pressures on physical and biological resources. The science of ecology gave rise to these assumptions, which the American people are now beginning to accept, because they constitute an effective means to understand the world. As one observer has noted:

[S]cience is a search for constancies, for invariants. It is the enterprise of making those identifications in experience which prove to be most significant for the control or appreciation of the experience yet to come. The basic scientific question is, “What the devil is going on around here?”2

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