Too many? 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

In yesterday's video you saw that mainline media, elites, the president at that time, were all persuaded that a population crisis had erupted because about 3.5 billion humans lived on this planet. You saw Ehrlich unapologetically maintaining his panicky tone years later.

Today our global population has more than doubled at 8+ billion. Did that result in more suffering in terms of life expectancy, food supply, child mortality, air quality, etc? 

No. As it turned out, life on Earth is actually better by these metrics despite huge population growth.

1. Across the world, people are living longer
2. Food supply has not declined in the last fifty years, but has grown to a new level 
3. Child mortality has dropped across all income levels
4. "In many countries, people breathe the cleanest air in centuries"

But how can that be? What's the explanation?

(cont'd tomorrow)