PEOPLE ARE PROGRESS: Why we should cheer that Earth’s population just passed 8 billion.

I’m going to write a “now it can be told” story on how Paul Ehrlich’s fearmongering bestseller, The Population Bomb, was actually a highly successful disinfo/psywar op. By convincing China to adopt the one-child policy, it crippled the country that was set to be a deadly rival in the 21st Century. Sure, there was some blowback, but . . .