“To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.”
“To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.”
Several broad and measurable trends show that the global picture looks very different from what mid-twenty century “population alarmists” predicted.
For more than half a century, the world has feared that human numbers would overwhelm the planet’s ability to sustain life. The “population bomb,” they said, was ticking.”


