It's similar to saying that Y2K was just a panic because nothing catastrophic happened at the turn of the millennium. You're ignoring all the work out into prev

It's similar to saying that Y2K was just a panic because nothing catastrophic happened at the turn of the millennium. You're ignoring all the work out into preventing it from happening. Today, around 70% of birthing age women use contraception. In Western nations you can argue that this was primarily due to feminism, but in Asia, this was only possible because governments were afraid of overpopulation and made them widely available.