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Population Bomb or Bust?

by Dr. Paul S. Aijian

May 28, 2024
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The Coming Reproductive Collapse

“The Population Bomb” was written in 1968 by Paul Ehrlich. I was just starting college, and the predictions were ominous. Amazon notes describe it thusly: “Ehrlich’s book warned of a future where the world’s population would outstrip available resources, leading to widespread famine and societal collapse.”

In that year, th…

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