Musings>Whatever Happened to the Population Bomb?

Paul R. Ehrlich was one of first of the current crop of doomsayers, claiming back in the 1970s that overpopulation would cause catastrophic upheaval and starvation, very soon. He turned out to be completely wrong, at least within the time frame he predicted. But it is interesting that nobody ever talks about this anymore.

None of the people who are howling about "saving the planet" have a thing to say about the thing that is most likely to destroy the planet. Population has grown rapidly in the past 2,000 years and doom is inevitable if it keeps it up. But the people who shed crocodile tears for crocodiles and other animals would have a lot less to cry about if animal habitats weren't threatened by humans.

I started to write about this once and a liberal friend warned me I'd just make a lot of people mad at me. He's probably right, but it doesn't make the problem go away by ignoring it. It's time to face it and accept that if there is a solution, it will be complicated, because all human problems just are.