[WayneS]

In 1968, a biologist named Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb, in which he predicted, among other things, "...in the 1970s the world will undergo famines- hundreds of millions of people will starve to death."

[MarkL]

"...in the 1970s the world will undergo famines- hundreds of millions of people will starve to death."

In a way, he was right, but without meaning to. There have been famines, but in nearly every case, the reason has been political, and NOT environmental, or due to a "population bomb." Three examples that have claimed 10s, if not 100s of millions of lives have been the Ukraine, courtesy of Stalin, Ethiopia, courtesy of a government that uses starvation as a weapon against opposition, and North Korea.

Mark