This article first appeared in the June 23, 2008 issue of The New American magazine.

By Selwyn Duke

If you’re like most alive today, you grew up with Paul R. Ehrlich’s
Malthusian idea of a “population bomb.” It just seems like common sense
that man will increase his numbers inexorably until, one day, we find
ourselves living a real-life Soylent Green scenario,
sans drama and Charlton Heston to sound that indelible alarm about the
real source of a futuristic, overpopulated world’s food supply,
“Soylent Green is people!”

Yet truth is stranger than fiction, and a work of reality, hour-long documentary Demographic Winter,
is sounding its own alarm: the population bomb is a dud. It always has
been. Instead, Earth’s population is poised to implode as birthrates
plummet on a scale heretofore unseen in the annals of man.

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