For years, we were told to worry about a "population bomb." Well, it's finally going off, but it's not an explosion. It's an implosion. In defiance of the Malthusian world view, the real population problem is not too many people, but too few. China has deliberately induced a population implosion with its "one child policy." That is a brutal legacy of Communism which is based on the premise that starvation in China was not caused by inadequate production of food—thanks to Mao's disastrous legacy of collective farming—but was instead caused by too many people. So China's dictators set out to reduce the number of people.
The Population Implosion
The Population Implosion
The Population Implosion
For years, we were told to worry about a "population bomb." Well, it's finally going off, but it's not an explosion. It's an implosion. In defiance of the Malthusian world view, the real population problem is not too many people, but too few. China has deliberately induced a population implosion with its "one child policy." That is a brutal legacy of Communism which is based on the premise that starvation in China was not caused by inadequate production of food—thanks to Mao's disastrous legacy of collective farming—but was instead caused by too many people. So China's dictators set out to reduce the number of people.