I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age of 93, but to read his writings you wonder whether it is an event he might actually want us to celebrate. It does, after all, mean one less mouth to feed. Just another 6.5 billion people to go and we will be down to what in 2018 he stated was the world’s optimum population of between 1.5 to 2 billion.

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Ehrlich’s 1968 book, The Population Bomb – written with his wife Anne whose name his publisher famously kept off the front cover – established Ehrlich as the world’s latter-day Malthusian-in-chief. There is one agreeable aspect to holding that position: you can never really be proved absolutely wrong because, reductio ad absurdum, if the world’s population carried on growing indefinitely then we would eventually reach the point at which it would become unsustainable – somewhat........

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