(
Ron Knecht) – “All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore.”
That was the lede in the top story in Sunday’s New York Times. It’s a recognition of a reality I first addressed a decade ago but which progressives, statists and Greens have denied.
They have lived on the dire alarmist prophesies of Paul Ehrlich from half-a-century ago. The prologue of his 1968 book,
The Population Bomb, began:
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to ‘stretch’ the carryi