Right now there are three main claims out there about overpopulation. An article from the New York Times titled, “The Unrealised Horrors of the Population Explosion” by Clyde Haberman presents us with Paul R. Erlich’s (a Stanford Professor’s) point of view: “ ‘The Population Bomb,’ sold in the millions with a jeremiad that humankind stood on the brink of apocalypse because there were simply too many of us. …He later went on to forecast that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s, that 65 million of them would be Americans, that crowded India was essentially doomed, that odds were fair ‘England will not exist in the year 2000.’ …sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come.’ By ‘the end,’ he meant ‘an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.’ ” Doctor Erlich even goes so far to say that allowing women to have as many children as they want is essentially ‘littering’. …show more content…
Simon, and his take on overpopulation. According to the article, Mr. Simon argues that “ ‘humanity’s condition will improve in just about every material way.’...‘whatever the rate of population growth is, historically it has been that the food supply increases at least as fast, if not faster.’ ...Because of improved health standards, birthing many children is not the survival imperative for families that it once was. In cramped cities, large families are not the blessing they were in the agricultural