Podcasts that mention 📚 The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich

Listeners 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.

The host of Freakonomics Radio refers to the book 'The Population Bomb' in the context of discussing the environmental movement of the 1960s, emphasizing its themes of overpopulation and the associated fear of starvation.

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there's a guy named Professor Paul R Ehrlich and he writes a book in 1968 called the population bomb

The host introduces Paul R Ehrlich and mentions his book "The Population Bomb".

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Oh yeah, that's not—I’m thinking of, yeah, different guy. So this guy, he wrote other things besides The Population Bomb.

In this segment, the hosts reference the book 'The Population Bomb' by Paul Ehrlich while discussing the topic of overpopulation, highlighting its significance in historical debates on the subject.

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there was um there was a really famous book in the middle of the 20th century called the Population Bomb so this is a guy named Paul Ehrlich

The guest mentions a famous book from the mid-20th century called "The Population Bomb" and its author, Paul Ehrlich, in the context of past doomsday prophecies that didn't come true due to technological advancements.

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