The Mythical “Population Explosion” Is Actually Headed In The Opposite Direction

Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University when he penned Population Bomb. Entomology is the study of insects. Thus, Ehrlich applied the science of insects to predict runaway overpopulation of humans that would destroy the world. Ehrlich was dead wrong but what is worse is that the academic world let him get away with it.⁃ TN EditorPeople in the United States and Europe have long taken for granted the idea that the world is in the midst of a “population explosion”