They still cried overpopulation from the rooftops, and then switched over to screaming underpopulation from the rooftops, all because they over-estimated the short term trends on both occasions. Malthus knows, Demographers suck at predicting the future, like they are really bad at it and always have been. Climate Scientists, same-same, shitty fortune tellers and always have been.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 6:20 pmDemographers did *not* argue the population bomb. That was liberal pop culture stemming from one liberal book.
Demographers have always said the population only increased due to declining death rates, and the birth rate was actually plummeting for generations now.
This was not arcane knowledge either. One literally only needed to look at the data.
You might buy into their claims of Doomsday, but I do not, that's what they always fucking say, and they are always fucking wrong, every damn time. SIFCLFs gonna SIFCLF, who knew?