The World is UNDERpopulated
Posted By Don Boudreaux On July 22, 2011 @ 3:06 pm In Complexity & Emergence,Myths and Fallacies,Population | Comments Disabled
While many myths compete with “the-world-is-over-populated-with-humans” myth for the honor of being the myth with least empirical and theoretical support, no myth surpasses the over-population myth in groundlessness and, really, absurdity pregnant with totalitarian impulses. I like the take of the Boston Globe‘s Jeff Jacoby [1].
And see here [2] just how out of touch with reality is the myth of over-population. (HT Chris Meisenzahl)
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[1] I like the take of the Boston Globe‘s Jeff Jacoby: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/07/20/population_boon/
[2] see here: http://persquaremile.com/2011/01/18/if-the-worlds-population-lived-in-one-city/
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