Author: Jan Narveson

“Human numbers are still rising in many countries. California’s population is growing faster than India’s; Americans born today will retire in a nation with more than half a billion inhabitants. This is frightening, given that even the present human population consumes 40 percent of Earth’s biological productivity.”* There seem to be some who still profess …

There are no inherent limits to growth In the late twentieth century, it once again became popular to claim that the world is “overpopulated” and that we were headed for demographic disaster. Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb predicted massive starvation well before the end of the century. It didn’t happen. World population did indeed roughly …