The Overpopulation Fallacy: Why More People Means More Knowledge And Prosperity – OpEd

By Amir Iraji

For decades, the dominant narrative surrounding population growth has been one of alarm. Thinkers like Malthus warned that population growth would cause mass starvation and ecological collapse. Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb famously predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve in the...