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A long fuse: 'The Population Bomb' is still ticking 50 years after its publication

  • Written by Derek Hoff, Associate Professor, Lecturer in Business and Humanities, University of Utah
Slums like this one in Rio de Janeiro embody the problems Paul Ehrlich warned of in 'The Population Bomb.'dany13, CC BY

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page of his 1968 best-seller, “The Population Bomb.” Because the “stork had passed the...

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