Elizabeth Economy is the C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Can humankind find its way to a world that is cleaner, safer, and fairer than the one we inhabit today—and can we do it with 50 percent more people? The answer is, possibly. It will require a complex interaction of vision, innovation, and policy all coming together at precisely the right moment.
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