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The Dangers of an Aging World

by Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

Wolves prowl the streets of abandoned cities. 

Only prostitutes are left to take care of the elderly. 

War is looming. 

This is 2013 and the global population is aging.

These are only a few of the alarming anecdotes retold at a conference last week. Decades of policies to reduce the number of people on our planet have had an effect, and it is generally not a good one, report the authors of three recent books on demographics.

“The world and the future will be poorer” because of the overpopulation myth, says one of the authors, a scientist.

The world has produced more resources than people over the last hundred years. Even so, the myth that the world is overpopulated persists, usually as a pseudo-scientific cloak for racism, says Dr. Robert Zubrin. Population policies are used to control minorities even in democratic countries, often through coercion and lies, and usually with U.S. funding.

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