Too many of us?

The population panic.

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Talk of 'overpopulation' has been with us for some time. Already, in 1798, when there were a mere 978 million people in the world, mathematician Thomas Malthus was warning of an impending catastrophe as human numbers exceeded the capacity to grow food.

Often the cause of concern is the speed at which others - be they people of other races or social classes or religions or political allegiances - are reproducing themselves, threatening, presumably, to disturb the wellbeing of whatever dominant group the commentator belongs to.

For many, the issue is primarily an environmental one. The logic is simple. The more people there are, the more greenhouse gas is emitted, the more damage is done. Any attempts to reduce carbon emissions will be negated by runaway population growth.

How reasonable is all this? Is population really the big taboo that progressive thinkers won't touch? Or is today's panic over population as irrational as earlier panics turned out to be?

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