The De-Population Bomb

Population has grown from 2.5 million in 1776 to 330 million today. What if this growth stops? What if the population begins to shrink? Nicholas Eberstadt has studied this. Fascinating disscussion regarding Paul Ehrlich’s theories that he wrote in the book “The Population Bomb” and the current population trend we are in right now and projections for the future. Free copy of that book here -- Free Download of "The Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich -- http://pinguet.free.fr/ehrlich68.pdf

In 1970, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published a famous book, The Population Bomb, in which he described a disastrous future for humanity: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”

That prediction turned out to be very wrong, and in this interview American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt tells how we are in fact heading toward the opposite problem: not enough people. For decades now, many countries have been unable to sustain a population replacement birth rate, including in Western Europe, South Korea, Japan, and, most ominously, China. The societal and social impacts of this phenomenon are vast. We discuss those with Eberstadt as well as some strategies to avoid them.

Source: Hoover Institution – Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdnlrkx-wg