Dominic Lawson: The population timebomb is a myth - Dominic Lawson, Commentators - The Independent

The doom-sayers are becoming more fashionable just as experts are coming to the view it has all been one giant false alarm.
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The human appetite for bad news knows no bounds. That is why gossip is usually malicious and why, on a grander scale, prophets of doom are always guaranteed a credulous audience. Conversely, good news – however well attested – is generally squeezed in the margins of newspapers.