Growing population creates short-term difficulties. But where people and markets are free, entrepreneurs and inventors, seeking profit opportunities, will solve the problems and leave us better off than before the problems arose. If the population had been stabilized in 1750, we would not be as rich as we are today. Contrary to the antinatalists, people do not breed like rats. They have always adjusted their reproductive activities to the constraints and incentives that confronted them.
Population is no threat to progress.
The moral is the practical. Individual freedom is the answer. D.C. To subscribe to the print version of Freedom Daily Click Here . All rights reserved.