Yes, I never read The Population Bomb when it was published, because I didn’t want to give it the time of day, let alone add to the author’s royalties.
But you didn’t have to. The News Media were all over it for years, trying to make everyone feel bad for being human and simply living, let alone having children.
What a sad business that was.
And the snake oil salesmen who pushed it have a lot to answer for. A hundred pornographic novels would do less harm than a book like that. Going out with a gun and committing mass murder would do less harm than that.
What you said is the truth, Cicero. The grim truth.