1.) The issue of the environment is actually a non-issue. The environment has actually improved over the last _ years. There's more forest area, more food (from less farmland), cleaner bodies of water/air, and more resources to go around. So as counterintuitive as it may seem, as our lives have improved, so has the environment.
2.) "The Great Stagnation" shows us that the growth in income levels has been declining the last 35-40 years. This fact is somewhat exaggerated though because the developing world (China, India) has seen unprecedented rates up towards 50% for the last 5 years. We've experienced so many technological advances that have bettered our lives in so many ways that it's kind of hard to argue that we haven't been improving during this period.
3.) The Commercial Revolution.....Demographic Revolution.... Why we have kids is a telling fact as to why the revolution occured. Before we had kids so we could use up our increased productivity with more people --> Classical Theory. Now we have kids for other reasons because knowledge, human capital and improvements in technology have allowed productivity to exceed population growth.
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