Suddenly, We Don’t Have Enough People
The stark implications of the global fertility collapse
8 min readJun 10, 2023
Just a generation or so ago, a book entitled The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich, sold millions of copies, continuing a long tradition of Malthusian doomsday forecasts. Ehrlich predicted that the world would soon be overpopulated, resulting in mass starvation and death. But the dire predictions did not come…