In today's edition (subscription required) William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal writes about the silliness of Thomas Friedman's recent column on overpopulation. Mr. McGurn lists the many times over the years the population bomb failed to explode (Club of Rome, etc.).
Look for more of this hype in the coming months. The global warming apocalypse has failed to arrive on schedule. Our intact planet is an awkward fact for the leftist foundations who spent more than a half billion dollars in an unsuccessful attempt to pass cap and trade. However, their endowments continue (even in this market) to produce billions of dollars in income and the non-profits who depend on their grants have big and expensive payrolls to meet.
With jobs and careers on the line, look for the environmental movement to cast about for a new cataclysm to sell. Until some consensus builds around the next big threat, they will trot out the tried and true: overpopulation, mercury, soot, etc. Why just the over day, I heard on the radio a desperate plea to save us from ozone.
Regardless of the threat, the solutions are always the same: fewer people, less capitalism, less wealth and more government control.
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