![]() ![]() In his book, Ehrlich played out hypothetical scenarios that represented “the kinds of disasters that will occur.” In the worst-case scenario, famine rages across the planet. Populations exploded, blowing past the available resources, and then crashed. ![]() He knew that nature did not regulate animal populations delicately. Ehrlich was an accomplished butterfly specialist. It was cold, hard math: The human population was growing exponentially the food supply was not. Resource shortages would cause hundreds of millions of starvation deaths within a decade. In his 1968 best seller, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich insisted that it was too late to prevent a doomsday apocalypse resulting from overpopulation. On one side was the Stanford biologist Paul R. The bet was on, and it was over the fate of humanity. ![]()
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