Eventually the document was endorsed by 4,000 scientists who declared that «we are worried at the dawn of the twenty - first century, at the emergence of an irrational ideology [man - made global warming] which is opposed to scientific and industrial
progress and
impedes economic and social development.»
When they turn their attention to population, such authors are not concerned primarily by the fact that rapid population growth may slow
economic progress in the third world, or that it may be inimicable to the interests of women, or even that it may give rise to environmental costs that are external to households» decisionmaking or may
impede virtuous institutional responses to scarcity.