As we worry about global warming in 2017, we worried about overpopulation in the 1960s. Entrepreneurs saved us from the population bomb, and they might resolve climate change. So let’s give thanks for entrepreneurs and foster their work in Colorado Springs.

“In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate,” explained the 1968 version of the bestselling book “The Population Bomb,” which warned that much of advanced civilization would not survive the 1980s because of overpopulation.

The opposite occurred. Population grew to exceed some of the more dire predictions. As it grew, poverty and starvation plummeted worldwide at unprecedented rates.

Population alarmists neglected to calculate the ability and historical tendency of humans to create resources, expand wealth and turn bad into good.

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