The Age of Underpopulation is Here
The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment.
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The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment.
A new study published in the Lancet medical journal has predicted that the world’s population will fall for the first time in centuries… proving, yet again, that overpopulation fears are not founded in reality. Population decline, meanwhile, continues to be a major concern across the globe.
Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China’s draconian “one child” policy.
Biologist Paul Ehrlich, 91, and other de-populationists have long concern-mongered about the planet having far too many human beings living on it. Their alarmist claims have proven as consequential as they have been wrong, inspiring the kind of disastrous policies taken up by the communist Chinese...
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