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In a way, yes, because it implies that each individual is equivalent, esp. in light of elections. In addition, it may be part of declarations that imply similar, like a Bill of Rights.

You may consider ecological footprint per capita vs. biocapacity per capita. There's criticism about biocapacity but they imply that it underestimates resource availability.

Forget Malthus and others. We now have warnings from various scientists, the IEA, Lloyd's of London, Morgan Stanley, the U.S. and German military, the Pentagon, the IMF, and many others of various crisis during the next few years due to peak oil, global warming, and economic crisis. You can find some sources mentioned in the "Fossil Fuel" lecture I shared in another thread.

Has anyone read anti-natalist works like Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and older sources?