Fred Pearce in Grist Mag: ‘On World Population Day, take note: population isn’t the problem — Population bomb that I remember being scared by 40 years ago as a schoolkid is being defused fast’
'Why don't we hear more about it? Because it doesn't fit the doomsday agenda...Half the world now has fewer than the 'replacement level' of children. That includes Europe, North America, and the Caribbean, most of the Far East from Japan to Thailand, and much of the Middle East from Algeria to Iran'