The Population Bomb Is Fizzling, But That Won’t Save the Planet

The Population Bomb Is Fizzling, But That Won’t Save the Planet

Human ingenuity thwarted past predictions of population-growth-induced disaster. Now that population growth is slowing, it’s still ingenuity that we need.

By Justin Fox

May 9, 2019 

  

   

It might help to stop biting the hand that feeds us. Photographer: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images



https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/03/16/decline-in-world-fertility-rates-lowers-risks-of-mass-starvation …

Has the #Population #Bomb been Defused... #Fertility is going down, but... number of people still going up

Thomas Robert Malthus - Malthus was a cleric and scholar from England who lived from 1766-1834. Malthusian Theory of Population Growth - This theory states that population grows exponentially, thus out-growing a society's resources.Jan 4, 2016

In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus famously predicted that short-term gains in living standards would inevitably be undermined as human population growth outstripped food production, and thereby drive living standards back toward subsistence.

For more than two centuries, thoughtful people have been worrying that rising populations would overtax the world’s resources. “The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race,” 

English clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus wrote in his “Essay on the Principle of Population” in 1798. A hundred and seventy years later, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich argued pretty much the same thing in “The Population Bomb”:

Malthus and Ehrlich were both right that population growth was accelerating. England’s population doubled in the half century after 1798; the world’s population doubled from 3.5 billion in 1968 to 7 billion in 2011, just six years later than Ehrlich had predicted.  

During the 20th century environmentalists used Malthus' theory to stress that theearth cannot sustain too many people and that resources will run out unlesspopulation growth is brought under control. ... Both works predicted disaster for humanity due to rapid population growth outstripping resource supply.

#population Bomb Threatens the peace of Nature, that's why Dr MSG emphasis on "We one + Our One" #WorldPopulationDay