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Population Bomb
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Population Bomb
A predicted explosive growth in the human population which had been expected to reach 12 billion (since decreased to 9 billion) by 2050, before levelling off


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In his 1968 environmentalist best-selling The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich provides some detailed findings that put the UN's projections into greater perspective.
Ballantine said The Population Bomb would be a far zippier title, and the book was published in mid-1968.
Holdren, the administration, and all Americans, to remember that even our recent history is littered with predictions of disaster - the population bomb, mass starvation, the disappearance of oil, and an impending ice age - that have not come to pass.
 
 
 
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