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The Population Bomb

If Books Could Kill

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Zero Population Growth

The book comes out in 1968 and basically makes no splash at all. Nobody gives a shit until 1970 when the author Paul Erlich is on the Tonight Show. Within a couple years, they're calling for the US to reduce immigration by 90%. It ends up becoming really reactionary.

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