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'The Population Bomb' By Clyde Haberman

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During the late 1960’s, the world was in a state of anxiety with regards to the growing fear of population explosion and the millions of people that were estimated to starve to death, thanks to Paul R. Ehrlich and his 1968 book, “The Population Bomb”. Contrary to Ehrlich’s theory, Clyde Haberman in his article, “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion” explains that our most threatening population problem is not population growth, but rather the population’s destruction of the planet (Haberman, 2015). Haberman discusses the fact that since the release of Ehrlich’s book we have figured out ways to feed the population thanks to plant scientists like Norman E. Borlaug, but have still been unable to solve other problems such as extreme
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