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The Population Bomb

If Books Could Kill

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Paul Erlich Is Still Alive

Paul Erlich wrote a book in 1990 called the Population Explosion. In 2018 he was interviewed and they're like do you regret anything? And he's like yes I didn't make dire enough predictions. The reason that he's saying this is will happen is just an overall global shortage of food. That's extremely different from localized shortages of food. So he says oh well look I didn't really make any predictions in that book. All I was saying is that the earth has a limit to how many people it can feed. Nobody disagrees with that.

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