Christopher C. Horner writes in the first chapter of his new book (just released last week), The Politically Correct Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism:


Our species’ proliferation is no small aggravation to our green friends, who long have predicted outlandish population figures and concomitant nutritional disaster, and adamantly insist that current population is “unsustainable,” a clame they have been making for decades. According to doomsayers like Paul Ehrlich, the proper or “sustainable” population of the Earth is between one and two billion; above that, famine is guaranteed. Somehow, on a “starving” planet housing well over six billion, obesity is declared an epidemic.


I still remember UNC-Chapel Hill professor of nutrition Barry Popkin spelling out how people not starving to death anymore “threatened” to drag down China if they don’t learn how to deal with the increase in life expectancy.