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The Population Bomb is a 1968 book co-authored by former Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich and former Stanford senior researcher in conservation biology Anne H. Ehrlich. [1] [2] From the opening page, it predicted worldwide famines due to overpopulation , as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to ...
- Paul R. Ehrlich
- 1968
Driving the criticism of The Population Bomb were its arresting, graphic descriptions of the potential consequences of overpopulation: famine, pollution, social and ecological collapse....
Apr 27, 2018 · The book was criticized at the time for painting an overly dark picture of the future. But while not all of the Ehrlich’s dire predictions have come to pass, the world’s population has doubled since then, to over seven billion, straining the planet’s resources and heating up our climate.
Jul 10, 2018 · Because the “stork had passed the plow,” he predicted, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” Ehrlich’s book identified dramatically accelerating world population...
- Derek Hoff
May 31, 2015 · Dr. Ehrlich’s ominous declarations cause head-shaking among some who were once his allies, people who four decades ago shared his fears about overpopulation. One of them is Stewart Brand ...
- 13 min
Jun 8, 2015 · Updated June 8, 2015, 6:46 AM. The more catastrophic consequences of human population growth predicted by Paul Ehrlich have not yet materialized, in part because he did not anticipate the...
Jun 3, 2015 · June 3, 2015 By Schuyler Null. In 1968, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve to death over the next decade, many of them Americans, and the world would generally decline into chaos in his book The Population Bomb. A retrospective on Ehrlich’s forecast is the subject of a new “ Retro Report ...
