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The Population Bomb (Ballantine, 1968)

Paul R. Ehrlich · c. 1968

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  1. The battle to feed all of humanity is over.
  2. We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.
  3. We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out.
  4. Population control is the conscious regulation of the numbers of human beings to meet the needs, not just of individual families, but of society as a whole.

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