population advocates have learned to carefully police our language and temper our proposals. Given how far our societies are from sustainability, just slowing down their enthusiastic charge in the wrong direction can look like a reasonable goal. For instance, “population stabilization” ...
The first sentence set the tone: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” And humanity had lost. In the 1970s, the book promised, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” No matter what people do, “nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the worl...