ot;The scourges of pestilence, famine, wars, and earthquakes have come to be regarded as a blessing to- overcrowded nations, since they serve to prune away the luxuriant growth of the human race." So wrote the Christian theologian Tertullian during the second century A.D., when the earth's population was only about 300 million-or six percent of what it is today (five billion).
Tertullian's observation, and the book in which it appears-Garrett Hardin's
Population, Evolution and Birth Control...