The Population Bomb

“But you know, obviously, in 1968, Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb, and at the same time, Garrett Hardin wrote The Tragedy of the Commons.”

“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.”

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

“And just by the way, I should call this out: Ehrlich set up an organization, uh, author of the Population Bomb, of course, called ZPG, which evolved into your population growth.”

“So many people who are watching and listening might not be aware, but there was plenty of doomsaying in the 1960s with regards to the population catastrophe and prognostications from people like Paul Ehrlich, most famously, who wrote 'The Population Bomb'.”

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

“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”