There was good reason back then to believe that overpopulation was a real problem whose time would come relatively soon. If it wasn’t for technological breakthroughs with dwarf wheat and IR8 rice variants, spearheaded by Norman Borlaug and others, our population would have seriously passed our ability to grow food by this point—the so-called Malthusian trap.
Using overpopulation as an example here would be akin to using something like global climate change as an example in the present, if it turns out that a technological breakthrough in the next 5-10 years completely obviates the need for us to be careful about greenhouse gas release in the future.
Because of this, I don’t think overpopulation as a cause area would make for the best example that you’re trying to make here.
There was good reason back then to believe that overpopulation was a real problem whose time would come relatively soon. If it wasn’t for technological breakthroughs with dwarf wheat and IR8 rice variants, spearheaded by Norman Borlaug and others, our population would have seriously passed our ability to grow food by this point—the so-called Malthusian trap.
Using overpopulation as an example here would be akin to using something like global climate change as an example in the present, if it turns out that a technological breakthrough in the next 5-10 years completely obviates the need for us to be careful about greenhouse gas release in the future.
Because of this, I don’t think overpopulation as a cause area would make for the best example that you’re trying to make here.