Civics: media veracity

“Country Faces an Overpopulation by 1975, with Farms Unable to Feed All, Experts Say”

—@nytimes in 1952, fearing that US population would reach 190 million people.

Today we have 330 million people, and our major food-related problem is eating too much of it.#Catastrophizing pic.twitter.com/EzlMYqcoIj

— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 11, 2022