Reducing consumption may be harder than reducing population growth.

Evidence

Recall that as people in developing countries acquire the means of improving their standard of living, they want the same high-consumption lifestyle as people enjoy in developed countries. Consumption rates may double or triple depending on countries’ baseline rates and levels of industrial production. An increase in world consumption of this magnitude would far exceed the resources the planet can provide and replenish. Preventing the collapse of the ecological supports of life requires scaling down consumption rates and reducing the number of consumers. It may be easier to reduce population growth than to persuade people to consume less. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2962

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2962