World Population Slows and Yet We’re Not Satisfied

This fascinating article passed my way and I guess I’m confused. Time was when we feared explosive population increases.

1955 redux

I was twenty years old in 1955 and had just proudly purchased my first brand new automobile, a Chevy Bel Air, white over yellow. So there were three markers for 1955: the car, my 20th birthday and the fact that world population was two billion. I’ve written before on the subject. Sixty-five years later, we’re nudging eight billion. Sit down, put your feet up, pour a cup of coffee and think about that for a moment. It took what we would call modern humanity about 300,000 years to reach the delivery date of my first new car. Side issue: that two billion headcount brought them out of caves and into the driver’s seat of an automobile that included power steering and brakes, automatic transmission, air conditioning, electric windows and a 200 cubic inch V-8 engine. Throw in a signal-seeking radio.

Got it? And then the fun began

In an eye-wink (about 2 hours out …