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A top White House adviser to President Barack Obama argued that mankind eventually must face up to the need for a "world of zero net physical growth" and "population limitation" in an essay he co-authored that was included in a 1995 book on environmentally "sustainable" economic activity published by the World Bank.

"A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States," Holdren wrote in a 1973 book he co-authored with Paul R. Ehrlch and Anne H. Ehrlich. "De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation."