The summa of Malthusianism

Somewhere on Monday, the world's population will reach 7,000,000,000. So the media will dish out another handwringer about the population explosion. Hopefully, it will last only one day. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, was a smash hit in the 1970s. But since then global fertility rates have fallen fast, and soon the world population will start to shrink. This has been foreseen for some time. But it's also bad news. How will we pay for our welfare states? The global population control lobby was a lot like the global warming lobby today. See Matthew Connelly's Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population.