Thread: The myth of overpopulation

I found this somewhere and, although, I would usually leave this type of material to someone else (like Pietro!), I could not resist the lure. I am quite certain that the author had finger trouble when typing the title of this report and at least one word in the report. I gallantly volunteered to correct the spelling.

The myth of overcopulation

As the food price crisis deepens, many commentators are pointing the finger of blame at overcopulation. Apparently, the real problem is the “human plague”: all those teeming, swarming billions of people in China, India and elsewhere, who are wolfing down so much meat and rice that food production methods have gone into meltdown. It’s time, we are told, to broach the last taboo: the fact that there are too many people.