The Population Bomb
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: 581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration | Freakonomics Radio
Podcast: Freakonomics RadioListeners who were old enough might remember the book 'The Population Bomb': the fear that the world was going to starve to death because there were too many people, birth rates were too high, and agricultural production was too low. There was a man named John Tanton in Michigan, an ophthalmologist who was an avid conservationist.
- Episode: Selects: How Zero Population Growth Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowOh yeah, that's not—I’m thinking of, yeah, different guy. So this guy, he wrote other things besides The Population Bomb.