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This post is about population of the human sort. In the 1960s, the rate of growth of human population appeared to be on a runaway ascent, enabled by the fossil-fueled Green Revolution. This alarming phenomenon prompted Paul Ehrlich to write The Population Bomb in 1968, warning of the inherent downsides in such an uncontrolled explosion of ...
Stanford’s answer to Malthusianism is in the form of Paul Ehrlich and his 1968 book, The Population Bomb where he describes famine and fighting over limited resources. ...
The Coming Reproductive Collapse “The Population Bomb” was written in 1968 by Paul Ehrlich.I was just starting college, and the predictions were ominous. Amazon notes describe it thusly: “Ehrlich’s book warned of a future where the world’s population would outstrip available resources, leading to widespread famine and societal collapse.”
Paul Ehrlich came out with The Population Bomb in 1968 and said one of the biggest problems globally is population growth. And he’s still right. It is the biggest problem to stabilize the climate, to keep the quality of life high for the people that are here. Population growth is a huge issue, and it’s incredibly politically divisive.
The environment—“ecology”—was discovered: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (Carson 1962), Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1968), Donnella and Dennis Meadows’ The Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972)—as well as peace and war in the global village—the manly, erotic thrill of On Thermonuclear War ...
Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich wrote in his 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, "The battle to feed all of humanity is over ... In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
Many quality books appeared in the late 20 th century detailing this overshoot, from Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968) to Donna Meadows, et al., The Limits to Growth (date) to Williman R. Catton, Jr’s Overshoot (1982) to Herman E. Daly’s Beyond Growth (1996).
