![]() ![]() Such a view has been the standard for centuries, and some of its proponents have made quite tidy sums writing books about the doom it foretells, most notably Paul Ehrlich. ![]() He declared back in 1798 that in conditions of economic and cultural stability, the human population would continue to increase, even to the point where it chokes resources and overburdens the Earth itself. ![]() Stripped of modern trappings such as greenhouse gas es and industrial meat farming, this is fairly close to the old vision of 18th-century scholar and theorist Thomas Malthus. According to all that received wisdom, there is a worldwide population crisis, with humans reproducing at ever-increasing rates, rapidly eating up all the world's resources and driving the engines of runaway climate change. The central assertion Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson make in Empty Planet is one that readers of the daily news or regular government reports will find deeply counterintuitive. ![]()
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