
We are facing a population explosion, but the idea that people should be coerced into having fewer babies misses the point
IT IS astonishing how many demons get stirred up whenever you mention population – and sometimes even when you don’t. This magazine recently examined how modern economies predicated on growth are ravaging the planet. Our mailbag rapidly filled with letters asking why we didn’t emphasise the number one problem: population.
Has this become a politically taboo subject, they wanted to know. Don’t we realise that overpopulation is destroying the planet? What’s the point of saving resources when population in…