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I remember the big impact this book had on the 1970s. Fit perfectly in with the 70s zeitgeist of scarcity and decline. In a middle school science class the teacher rolled out a machine that supposedly tracked how the world would run out of energy. The class was suppose to tinker with the parameters including forced decline in standards of living. According to the machine we should of run out of fossil fuels by now. I highly recommend Charles C. Mann's book about Pre-Colombian America "1491" and the world wide impact of the European conquest of the Americas in "1493".
1 posted on 04/02/2018 7:21:41 AM PDT by C19fan
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I recognized it as BS from the start.


2 posted on 04/02/2018 7:26:55 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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We’re in the midst of 5 going on 6 agricultural revolutions on such a massive scale that it will be possible to feed and earth population 100 -1000 times the size of the current population.

The downside is that the agricultural revolutions are happening in the developed world but not so much in the third world where population is expanding faster than their abilities to feed themselves.

So unless some major interventions occur there are going to be a lot more migrations that will disrupt and western civilization


3 posted on 04/02/2018 7:28:10 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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How about the movie “Soylent Green”?


5 posted on 04/02/2018 7:30:18 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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In the 70’s,kids in class learned THE BOAT GAME...6 people in a boat,only room for 3...who gets killed...Kids learned not everyone deserves to live


6 posted on 04/02/2018 7:30:50 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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Paul Ehrlich was completely wrong yet his narrative infested pop culture for a decade. When nothing he predicted happened they just replaced him with Gore and not a word said about what an idiot Paul Ehrlich was.


7 posted on 04/02/2018 7:30:58 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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I read Ehrlich's book when it first came out when I was in college.

Seemed fascinating at the time but where are all the starving and dead people?

The places that have people facing starvation like Venezuela, have nothing to do with over-population.

It has to do with too much socialism and communism.

Ehrlich's false predictions are what convinced me that this global cooling, then global warming, then climate change, are all a bunch of Leftie BS.

Ehrlich is like Gore. All talk and bluster but no results to back them up. Snake oil salesmen all.

8 posted on 04/02/2018 7:31:08 AM PDT by HotHunt
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Opps, forgot Islamists....


10 posted on 04/02/2018 7:33:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Another one was ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’........................


11 posted on 04/02/2018 7:34:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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Doom and gloom is a $$$ winning $$$ formula.

I am working on a theory that toxic lawn grass is making white men strile ..and then they die!


15 posted on 04/02/2018 7:41:05 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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Liberals abandoned the book once they realized the population problem was mostly limited to non-white cultures.


19 posted on 04/02/2018 7:42:34 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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Um...not so fast...


21 posted on 04/02/2018 7:45:07 AM PDT by montag813
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: 06/07/1977...Dr. Paul Ehrlich -Newest Cover Popular Realit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQxLJCjH58s


22 posted on 04/02/2018 7:46:06 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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It's not about being able to "feed" them. The population in Africa is EXPLODING. And they are invading Europe already. Imagine that DOUBLED.


25 posted on 04/02/2018 7:57:46 AM PDT by montag813
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The man has never been right about anything in his life. And yet major universities still shell out five-figure honoraria to have him come and speak.

Virtue Signaling Uber Alles.


27 posted on 04/02/2018 8:05:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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And the earth is gonna burn up.

And the earth is gonna freeze.

And all the fish in the ocean are gonna die.

And we are gonna run out of oil in 10 years.

And robots are gonna take over everything.

WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!


32 posted on 04/02/2018 8:11:09 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Norman Borlaug, the unassuming Protestant agriculture researcher who saw it as his mission to feed the world. And even Slate called him the man who fed a billion people, because his dwarf grain varieties tripled food yield.
But no one will mention his faith as the reason he spent a lifetime trying to ensure we could feed everyone, much less proving environmentalist doom and gloom wrong.


33 posted on 04/02/2018 8:11:10 AM PDT by tbw2
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The only way I survived the grwat starvation of the 1980s was by eating remaindered copies of The Population Bomb.


34 posted on 04/02/2018 8:18:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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He was wrong, but m*slim areas of the planet are having rapid population growth and are prone to violence. Not a good thing for the future of the planet.


36 posted on 04/02/2018 8:29:15 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left. PS. f*ck the media.)
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Norman Borlaug. We all should know his name and celebrate his achievements, as he is almost single-handedly the reason why the Population Bomb did not go off.


41 posted on 04/02/2018 8:55:07 AM PDT by Remole
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I too remember Ehrlich’s book coming out in my college days and quickly followed the zero population growth movement...another hysteria induced reaction to a non existent problem. It seems that no one learns from history. These wild haired prognosticators predicting doom and gloom have been with us since the days of Malthus and have never been right.

The global warming hoax however is more insidious as it is a politically motivated vehicle for greater government control and world governance by a handful of elites. Man caused global warming a.k.a climate change, has now become a cult with an unquestionable dogma, an Inquisition to root out “deniers” and its own Savonarola, Al Gore. I pray the world comes to its senses and exposes these charlatans.

42 posted on 04/02/2018 8:56:38 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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