Paul R. Ehrlich
Biologist (1932 to 2026) whose The Population Bomb (1968) predicted mass famine from overpopulation and called for population control.
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Our reading
Their wordsThe battle to feed all of humanity is over.
↗The Population Bomb (Ballantine, 1968)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Our reading
Population control at home should be by incentives and penalties, and by compulsion if they fail
Their wordsWe must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.
↗The Population Bomb (Ballantine, 1968)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsWe can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out.
↗The Population Bomb (Ballantine, 1968)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsPopulation 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.
↗The Population Bomb (Ballantine, 1968)archive.org All 4 from this book