Club of Rome Member Advocates 'Civil' Population Reduction to One Billion for Sustainability

Club of Rome member Dennis Meadows hopes that an 87.5% reduction of the world's population, down to one billion people, can "occur in a civil way".

"The planet can support something like a billion people, maybe two billion, depending on how much liberty and how much material consumption you want to have."

"If you want more liberty and more consumption, you have to have fewer people."

"And conversely, you can have more people. I mean, we could even have eight or nine billion... if we have a very strong dictatorship."