Summary
Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb was on the bestseller lists, warning that world population was rising faster than the world's ability to feed it. In 1977 World Bank president Robert McNamara sternly warned that the number of people was growing faster than the planet's ability to feed them and overpopulation was the 'gravest' threat next to a nuclear winter. No one had grasped the real implications of the sexual revolution in the 1960s.
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Where Have All the Babies Gone?
The last European will die on 6 August 2960. This, if you extend demographic trends far enough, is the grim official prognosis for our continent. We are rich enough and clever enough to have separated sex from childbearing and too busy for large families. The birth rate dropped below population replacement levels years ago, and our population incr...
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