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Won’t the population explosion negate any net positive design solutions?



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Won’t the population explosion negate any net positive design solutions?
To the contrary. In fact, better design is essential for dealing with population issues. Design cannot 
increase the size of the planet or make people smaller. However, it can improve the quality of life, 
access to public facilities, security and amenity without additional space or money. Environmentalists 
have long argued that if everyone were safe and secure as individuals, and/or as members of minority 
races and religions, there would be less pressure to have children as ‘old age insurance’ and less 
pressure on resources. Yet, at the same time, some countries with high living standards are worried 
about declining human reproduction rates. Incredibly, population growth is still being encouraged 
in some places, to meet the market system’s insatiable demand for ever-expanding consumption 
– by reproducing consumers. In 2006, the Australia federal treasurer argued that it was the patriotic 
duty of Australians to have more children to help the economy: ‘one for mom, one for dad and one 
for the country’. Of course, urging people to abstain from having children, to reduce consumption 
or to redistribute wealth are very difficult messages to sell. Instead of creating ever more disposable 
products for ever more people to consume, however, we could create more jobs and monetary flows 
by designing better, healthier environments with positive outcomes for all parties. Development 
could become a sustainability solution rather than a problem.
How can we possibly create more jobs with less space and resource flows?
We can, for example, provide more shared public spaces and high-quality recreational, educational 
and social facilities in ways that increase usable space for people, nature, and ecosystem goods and 
services. Human and environmental services can be increased without additional resources or ‘extra’ 
space, because recreational and productive human functions can occupy the same area as natural 
systems [Chapter 3]. Moreover, jobs in construction and service provision are a good thing. They 
are more ‘productive’ than jobs created by proliferating disposable trinkets, consumer items destined 
for landfill, or the world’s biggest businesses (weapons manufacture and trade in illegal drugs, rare 
animals and timbers). Too little attention has been paid to the 
quality
of jobs in relation to resources 
consumed. Design and construction that utilize natural systems are less capital- and more talent-
intensive than many industrial systems. Design also demands and develops more creative capacity and 
know-how. Eco-logical design and retrofitting is site-specific and thus challenging, unlike repetitive, 
mind numbing jobs created by assembly lines or call centres. If we re-designed human habitats to 
expand the ecological base and public estate and to provide eco-services and environmental amenity, 
the wealthy might not require material opulence. The loss of material goods would be outweighed 
by the increase in their personal security and substantive life quality.
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