The Depopulation Bomb
What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?
Overpopulation
Happy Earth Day! Reason Recycles 5 Decades of Environmental Coverage
A selection of Reason's most incisive articles on population, pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and the ideological environmentalists' penchant for peddling doom.
The Club of Rome's New Malthusianism-Lite Report
No overpopulation doom but humanity is still at risk by overstepping planetary boundaries.
Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong
The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.
No, the World Is Not Heading Toward 'Mass Extinction'
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
Population Growth Still Isn't a Problem. Anti-Immigrant Groups Still Think It Is.
It shouldn't be surprising that a misanthropic worldview like Paul Ehrlich's can be taken in xenophobic directions.
60 Minutes Promotes Paul Ehrlich's Failed Doomsaying One More Time
The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.
Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley: More People Means More Wealth
The Superabundance authors make a compelling case that the world is getting richer for everyone.
Thanos Was Wrong: More People Means More Wealth
Superabundance explains why a world of 8 billion people is infinitely richer than one with 1 billion.
Elon Musk, Artificial Wombs, and the Impending Shortage of Mars Colonists
"Synthetic wombs make having kids much faster, easier, cheaper, and more accessible."
The 'One-Child' Policy Was Tyrannical in Theory and Brutally Oppressive in Practice
For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China’s reproductive restrictions..
U.S. Fertility Rate Drops to Lowest Level Ever
Americans are freely choosing to have fewer children.
The World Is Doing Better Than Ever. Here's Why You Never Hear About It.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents progress and explains why it happens.
The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
The U.S. Baby Bust Continues
The total fertility rate falls to its lowest level ever.
Population Control Isn't the Answer to Climate Change. Capitalism Is.
Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.
U.S. Fertility Falls to Lowest Rate Ever
The number of children that families choose to have is none of the government's business.
The U.N. Says World Population May Top Out at 10.9 Billion Before 2100. Other Demographers Say It'll Be Much Lower.
Thanks to global expansion of reproductive freedom, actual population growth is likely to be less and peak around the middle this century
Earth Is Nearly 520 Percent More Abundant Now Than in 1980
Thanks to the ultimate resource: the human mind
This One Chart About Global Aging Changes Everything
"For the first time ever there are now more people in the world older than 65 than younger than 5."
Leaked U.N. Report Says a Million Species Are at Risk of Extinction
Such predictions were wrong half a century ago, and this one is likely mistaken too.
Of Course the Country Isn't Full — and Trump Knows It
America desperately needs more immigrants to support its economy.
3 Statistics That Will Make You Smarter and Happier
If you read Reason you already know these three pieces of good news about global trends.
Hooray! U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to 40-Year Low
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
Thanos, the Villain in Infinity War, Is Just Another Environmentalist Worried About Overpopulation
The supervillain's master plan echoes the fears of "Population Bomb" author Paul Ehrlich.
Civilization Is Doomed, Says Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (Again)
Half a century after The Population Bomb, Ehrlich still thinks global catastrophe is just around the corner.
The Amazing and Abundant Future
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
High School Students Are Very Worried About Overpopulation. They Shouldn't Be.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
Malthusians Wrong Again: World Cereal Production Hits All-Time High
World grain production grew by 3 percent this year, while world population rose just 1.2 percent.
Should the Government Try to Bribe You Into Having More Babies?
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Population Doomster Paul Ehrlich's New Forecast: 'Biological Annihilation'
New predictions of animal population doom are likely exaggerated.
Overpopulation Scaremongering Never Gets Old
Neo-Malthusianism in the Sunday New York Times
High Population Density Just Might Be Good for You
For people, unlike rats, the human 'behavioral sink' seems to be greater creativity, not pathological collapse.
Hey Population Doomsters. People Aren't Rats: New at Reason
Population density portends greater creativity, not collapse
Tom Hanks Endorses 'Malthusian Theory' of Overpopulation
Malthusianism might make a good movie plot, but it is just fiction.
Have More Kids. It's Good For the Planet
Things have never been better, despite doomsday prophecies from some environmentalists.
Enviros Shun While Pro-Life Conservatives Embrace Population Control Restrictionists. Go Figure.
Immigration makes the strangest bed fellows
A U.S. Department of the Future Is a Really Bad Idea
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.
China Drops Oppressive One-Child Policy: Too Late to Avoid Demographic Implosion
Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning
What Global Food Crisis?: Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal Review of The Reproach of Hunger
Neo-Malthusians still get it wrong: Markets and science will feed 9 billion if not blocked.
Secret? Global Poverty Has Been Falling - The End of Doom
New York Times columnist reveals today the "secret" that my new book documents.
The End of Doom
Good news! Dire predictions about cancer epidemics, mass extinction, overpopulation, and more turned out to be a bust.
Malthusians v. Cornucopians, a more critical review of The End of Doom
Bailey responds to the criticism below
The Coffee Table Book of Doom!
Do more people mean more trouble for the planet?
Doomster Paul Ehrlich Unrepentant: "My language would be even more apocalyptic today."
And still just as wrong
