Re: Two extra Earths, seven? eight?

Plus, you might look at _Overshoot_ , I believe.  I believe his quote was 7-8
'more earths'. 

Author: Catton, William Robert, 1926- Title: Overshoot, the ecological basis of
revolutionary change / William R. Catton, Jr. Publisher: Urbana : University of
Illinois Press, c1980. Description: xvii, 298 p. ; 24 cm.


At 04:11 PM 4/30/01 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> Sometime ago I came across an analysis that stated that it would require two
> extra earths to provide the resources for all the world to consume at the
> North American/European/Japanese level. This has become my favorite example
> for enlightening people around me at why people would want to protest things
> like free trade. The thing is I don't remember where I saw this, and being
> the responsible pretensious scholar that I am, I want to be able to source
> the quote. Can anyone help me track this down? I seem to recall reading this
> on the WSN list but I am not sure.
>  
> Thanks, 
> T. Comeau