For decades, environmentalists have been shouting that the world is overpopulated, and will soon run out of food, oil, and other necessities on which modern societies depend.Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, published in 1968, set the scene for the adoption of “zero population growth” policies in most Western countries, as well as some in the communist bloc, including China.Shrinking familiesIn some countries, the size of the average family fell from around 5 to about 3 in a generation.Ehrlich…
