Critical-level utilitarianism and the population-ethics dilemma
Economics and philosophy, vol. 13, no. 2, 1997, pp. 197–230
Abstract
Advances in technology have made it possible for us to take actions that affect the numbers and identities of humans and other animals that will live in the future. Effective and inexpensive birth control, child allowances, genetic screening, safe abortion, in vitro fertilization, the education of young women, sterilization programs, environmental degradation and war all have these effects.
