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Malthusian Whiplash as Overpopulation Fears Ebb
Today we are worrying about population decline in many countries — and diabetes has supplanted starvation as a scourge.
Thomas Malthus, author of the 1798 work 'An Essay on the Principle of Population.' Via Wikimedia Commons
THEODORE DALRYMPLE
Mr. Dalrymple, born in 1949, is a retired doctor who spent many years working in prison. He has written many books, the latest being 'Ramses: A Memoir' and 'The Wheelchair and Other Stories.' He lives between Britain and France.
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