This chapter focuses on explanations for doomsday fears about population growth, though all such fears have much in common. The discussion is truncated because a scant treatment here is better than no treatment at all. The reasoning behind these matters, together with a discussion of the politics, requires an entire book to explain. I hope that such a book is forthcoming soon. Bad news feeds on itself.
Bad news sells newspapers.
You have read numerous examples of such statements in previous chapters by persons who are supposedly experts. I really heard it to every cell of my body. And there is a bucket more, including newspaper editorial writers, U.S. senators and representatives.