Posted on 12/03/2021 3:25:21 PM PST by BusterDog
Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1965, when Tom Lehrer recorded his live album That Was the Year That Was. Lehrer prefaced a song called “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)” by saying that “if there's going to be any songs coming out of World War III, we’d better start writing them now.” Another preoccupation of the 1960s, apart from nuclear annihilation, was overpopulation. Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb was published in 1968, a year when the rate of world population growth was more than 2 percent—the highest in recorded history.
Half a century on, the threat of nuclear annihilation has lost its imminence. As for overpopulation, more than twice as many people live on the earth now as in 1968, and they do so (in very broad-brush terms) in greater comfort and affluence than anyone suspected. Although the population is still increasing, the rate of increase has halved since 1968. Current population predictions vary. But the general consensus is that it’ll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now. In most countries—including poorer ones—the birth rate is now well below the death rate. In some countries, the population will soon be half the current value. People are now becoming worried about underpopulation.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Communists are setting up humans to go extinct. Ask bill gates and his merry little helpers.
I disagree with every idiotic statement in that article. Only pathetic losers believe in overpopulation.
It’s a good thing we have experts waiting to tell us what we have to do.
If this is Scientific American, they would know that over 99% of all species that ever existed are now extinct. Not exactly scientific news.
Humans will be find if the Left dies off
Overpopulation, underpopulation, ice ages, global warming, acid rain, ozone holes, plague and contagion.... But the human race seems to just soldier on.
Nah. The next Ice Age will toughen up the remaining people
[Henry Gee's book] The Accidental Species, a book on human evolution, was published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2013. According to Stephen Cave (author of Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation), Gee writes, "persuasively," that "our obsession with our uniqueness is folly.... We... believe we are so exceptional... that we are the pinnacle of evolution. But this is a misunderstanding: we are just one twig in the thicket, and we could easily have never sprouted at all."
I can drive for like an hour and a half where I live and not even run into any humans. Weird.
I’ve always assumed that people who think that have never left a big city in their lives.
It’s Propaganda American and they are just part of the organized media assault on prosperity and freedom. They seem to think that a totalitarian left wing gov’t will give them all the research grants they want. Instead, of course, there will only be poverty.
Overpopulation is a leftist buzz word .....rather than state resource hunting by countries wanting resources they can’t provide their people.
I remember when SA was a magazine that was actually serious about science and not woke BS.
Are they saying the vaccinated are Dead-meat ?
Nobody goes to Earth any more. It’s too crowded.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
I have the feeling that deep down, the author of this piece believes that the world is overpopulated by Henry Gees.
“I disagree with every idiotic statement in that article. Only pathetic losers believe in overpopulation.”
This article is saying there’s no overpopulation.
Good grief!!! What will our pampered pets do without humans to open their cans? Fauci and Gates will turn them into lab test subjects. .
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