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Are there too many human beings on planet Earth? This is not an empirical question, but a normative one. It depends on one’s perceptions, assumptions, beliefs, and understanding (or lack thereof).
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Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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