
The Population Bomb
If Books Could Kill
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Urbanization - A Bifurcated Complaint
He complains a lot about traffic in this book, like traffic and parking and stuff. It's also really telling to me that he's writing this in the late 60s, which is like peak like white flight times. So we're looking at, again, a bifurcated complaint. One, we're going to reproduce so much that we all hit a literal boiling point and explode. Two, there's fucking poor people everywhere, man. I know. He's like, first of all, we can't go to Venus. Second of all, traffic. It's unbelievable these days. The thing that is bad is sprawl. Right.
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