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The Depopulation Bomb Isn't Ticking, It's Overblown
What the overpopulation panic of the 1960s and 70s can teach us about the underpopulation panic of today.
150 years later, William Vogt’s Road to Survival(1948) and Fairfield Osborn’s Our Plundered Planet(1948) breathed new life into Malthusianism and inspired Hugh Moore (the founder of Dixie Cups) to publish the 1954 pamphlet The Population Bomb is Everyone’s Baby. She seized dictatorial powers, imprisoned her political rivals, and embarked, with the help of her son Sanjay, on a mass, compulsory sterilization program that registers as one of the most disturbing and vast human rights violations in the country’s modern history.” [Hyperlink added] This all sounds properly alarming, but before you join the “ pro-natalism ” movement and start having kids by the dozen and naming them things like “ X AE A-XII ”, “Exa Dark Sideræl”, and “Techno Mechanicus”, let’s apply a little skepticism, perspective, and cold water.
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