Paging Paul Ehrlich! Fred Pearce on ‘The overpopulation myth’: ‘Population growth is slowing…The idea that growing human numbers will destroy the planet is nonsense’
'There is no exponential growth. Population growth is slowing...2nd myth is that it is driving force behind our wrecking of planet...We must not follow the lure of Malthus... Malthusian thinking led to huge and unnecessary death toll in Irish potato famine...The truth is that the population bomb is being defused round the world'
