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26 June 2021- By 2050, millions of people worldwide will face chronic hunger, be in drought and be riddled with disease
LINKSeen that $hit before ...
Paul EhrlichThe Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich, in 1968. It
predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth...
The Population Bomb, predicted “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death” in the 1970s – a fate that was avoided by the green revolution in intensive agriculture .Many details and timings of events were wrong, Paul Ehrlich acknowledges today, ...
The book has been criticized since its publication for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades for its inaccurate
predictions. The Erich's stand by the book despite its flaws stating in 2009 that "perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future"
Predictions
The Erich's made a number of specific predictions that did not come to pass, for which they have received criticism. They have acknowledged that some predictions were incorrect. However, they maintain that their general argument remains intact, that their predictions were merely illustrative, that their and others' warnings caused preventive action, or that many of their predictions may yet come true. Still other commentators have criticized the Erich's' perceived inability to acknowledge mistakes, evasiveness, and refusal to alter their arguments in the face of contrary evidence. In 2015 Ehrlich "I do not think my language was too apocalyptic in The Population Bomb.
Re,
Predictions"Even the rain that falls, isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems"
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