-- By Tom Phillips
In my lifetime, Western Man's greatest fear has always been that he will be "hoist by his own petard," blown up with one of his home-made bombs. Baby boomers grew up in the shadow of the A-bomb, then the H-bomb. Today, the fear of nuclear war has receded, but another spectre of the post-war era has returned -- babies themselves.
With the earth warming and seas rising, the "Population Bomb" is upon us again, bigger and uglier than ever.
In my lifetime, Western Man's greatest fear has always been that he will be "hoist by his own petard," blown up with one of his home-made bombs. Baby boomers grew up in the shadow of the A-bomb, then the H-bomb. Today, the fear of nuclear war has receded, but another spectre of the post-war era has returned -- babies themselves.
With the earth warming and seas rising, the "Population Bomb" is upon us again, bigger and uglier than ever.