Paul Ehrlich The Population Bomb

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In August of 1969 a chaotic time with new fears of overpopulation had begun. A Stanford University biologist by the name of Paul Ehrlich had predicted doom for the world because of overpopulation. He believed that because we had a finite planet with finite resources, that we could not continue to procreate without suffering dire consequences. Later he wrote a book called “The Population Bomb” which put all of his theories together. Stewart Brand and Adrienne Germaine looked up to Paul thinking that what he was predicting would happen in the future. He even went as far as to predict that London would not exist in the year 2000, and that much of India would die of starvation. London is still around and much of India did not die because of