Americans have a strong scepticism of prognosticators. Just look at children stories like chicken little and the boy who cried wolf. That’s great when prognos

Americans have a strong scepticism of prognosticators. Just look at children stories like chicken little and the boy who cried wolf. That’s great when prognosticators are wrong: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/157/3791/914.2 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/157/3791/914.2 Unlike America, China didn’t ignore Paul Erlich and his ilk. They responded by implementing the one child policy. Originally intended to preserve their resources, they kept it because it aided in industrialization. And so China is now a major polluter, is stripping away its resources at a massive scale, and about to hit a massive demographic cliff. And in the process violated human rights on a massive scale.