Paul Ehrlich and Wife Worry About Overpopulation

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich and his wife take to the Huffington Post to warn us:

Will technology save us? It can help, but its record is generally dismal. When The Population Bomb was published in 1968, there were 3.5 billion people, and we were called alarmist -- technology could feed, house, clothe, educate, and provide great lives to even 5 billion people. Nuclear agro-industrial complexes or growing algae on sewage would feed everyone. Well, they didn't. Instead, the roughly half-billion hungry people then have increased to about a billion, and a couple billion more are living in misery. Why don't the growth maniacs stop asserting how many billions more people we could care for and focus first on stopping population growth and giving decent lives to all the people already here? And spare us that old bromide about how the next kid may turn out to be the Einstein who saves us; considering the rich-poor gap, it's more likely to be an Osama Bin Laden bent on destroying us.

The eugenics movement lives!