From BooMan Tribune, a lengthy excerpt from a review of a book that seems to have it ass to the front. It seems to me that the problem is not to few people, but too many.
Just as a first reaction, it seems that the book is not concerned particularly with the world, despite the grandiose title. It's concerned with the impact of declining population on Europe and America. I hadn't noticed that the world population is tanking at all.
Ah! Reading farther, it seems that the catastrophic population decline is on the horizon, approaching rapidly. There is a scenario in which that holds, but it has nothing to do with family planning. It has to do with at least three of the Four Horsemen: Famine, Plague, and War; Death is the inevitable result. The DoD has been aware of this for some time, in conjunction with global warming, and has done projections of population shifts, food production in the undeveloped nations, and the resultant requirement for increased American military power.
What amazes me, reading through the comments, is the sheer blindness and insularity of the premise, and how those who pick up on it are met by BooMan's insistence that the author's research supports it. (Note that the author of the book is BooMan's brother, for what that's worth.)
After careful consideration, I have to conclude that the whole thing is laughable.
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