Growing up in the 1970s, my teenage years, and then into the 1980s, Western media proclaimed loudly and often that we were in the midst of a population bomb, and that if we weren’t careful the earth would suffocate under the weight of those teeming masses. By the 1980s millions would starve, we were told, because the earth just couldn’t sustain all those stomachs that needed to be fed. Thomas Malthus was alive and well. As Paul Ehrlich’s unjustly famous book’s subtitle put it, “Population…
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