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Optimal Pollution, Optimal Population, and Sustainability

In: Green Growth and Sustainable Development

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  • Ulla Lehmijoki

    (University of Helsinki and HECER)

Abstract

This paper develops a long-run consumer optimization model with endogenous pollution and endogenous population. The positive check increases mortality if pollution increases. The optimal path is sustainable if it provides non-decreasing consumption for a non-decreasing population. As usually, optimality and sustainability may conflict; with population endogenous to pollution, this conflict may ultimately lead the human species toward self-imposed extinction. Not even technical progress can warrant sustainability.

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  • Ulla Lehmijoki, 2013. "Optimal Pollution, Optimal Population, and Sustainability," Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, in: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma & Tapio Palokangas & Alexander Tarasyev (ed.), Green Growth and Sustainable Development, edition 127, pages 31-47, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:dymchp:978-3-642-34354-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34354-4_2
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    1. Lehmijoki, Ulla & Palokangas, Tapio K., 2016. "Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy," IZA Discussion Papers 10465, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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