'Overpopulation' Turns Out to Be Overhyped

The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 4, 2002 | Ben J. Wattenberg

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It's not often that a scholarly paper declares its implications "momentous," but a newly released report by the United Nations Population Division does just that. And with good cause. In a proposal sexily titled "The Future of Fertility in Intermediate-Fertility Countries," the U.N. concludes that in this century we can expect a "slowing of population growth rates" followed by "slow reductions in the size of world population."

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Remember Paul Ehrlich?

I've heard of him but the way Europe and the USA are being overrun with third-world poverty stricken people, I think he was partly right. When he wrote his book, California was a state with a very healthy economy, and look at it now. Mexico is becoming very crime-ridden but back when he wrote the book, Mexico was a pretty safe country to be in.

There seems to be a problem with third world conditions growing and middle class societies becoming more rare.