As I pointed out in my essay about Asimov's 1974 commencement speech, in some ways population control has actually worked out better than Asimov was willing to predict. We were only at six and a half billion in 2000. What he got wrong is that for the most part this isn't happening because some Board of Population Control is taking overt measures--Amartya Sen seems to think that even in the country with the most obvious such program (China) the drop in birthrate may be taking place for unrelated reasons.
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Date: 2007-02-11 08:51 pm (UTC)