Population Growth: Fact or Myth?
The world today is filled with many ideas and philosophies; some fact, while others are mere opinion. Countless individuals believe most notions presented by people throughout the world are true, no matter what. For example, the statements “eating too much junk food will make you fat” and “Diet Coke is better for you than regular Coke” both seem to be a common truth. However, if one were to search it out they would find that Diet Coke is just as bad, or even worse for you than regular Coke. A more serious misconception across the globe is the idea that world population will always be growing. This is partly due to the “baby boom” of 1946-1964, a period where the United States experienced a drastic increase in birth rate. During this time 77 million babies were born in the U.S., and 450 million were born worldwide. In 1968, shortly after the baby boom, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote a book titled The Population Bomb . The novel declared that population growth was a negative t...