A long fuse: 'The Population Bomb' is still ticking 50 years after its publication
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
"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 plow," he predicted, "hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."