Washington Post Channels Malthus in Rebuttal to Senator Who Said Kids Are Good for the Planet

"This recommendation, to add more people to the planet, doesn't track with science or reason," the Washington Post claimed.

From tin shortages in the ancient world to William Strong Newberry's 1875 (yes, 1875) warning that the world was running out of oil to Paul Ehrlich's 'Population Bomb' to Jimmy Carter's moral equivalent of war, population growth has placed humanity on the Malthusian edge of poverty and privation-or so we keep being told.