As Population Grows, Conflicts Will Increase

The UnitedNationsPopulationFund projected that the world population reached 7 billion people on Oct. 31. When I was born in 1938, the global human population was under 2.3 billion. So in my lifetime the population of the world has tripled, and then some. Population...

The Pill: Boon or Bane?

Was the invention of the birth control pill a good thing or a bad thing? Most people, I suspect, have never considered the options. In a world of limited resources that continues to be threatened by overpopulation, there are good arguments for seeing the invention of...