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Talk:The Population Bomb

2008-11-29T17:49:17Z

RichardC:

{{unprotected|April 9th|Ed Poor}}

This book should have ranked Number One on the all-time worst list. Complete garbage. It ranks up there with the bet he made with Julian Simon about commodity prices. Ehrlich is a fraud.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 12:50, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

Claiming that obesity is a bigger problem than starvation is a little insensitive when we have things like the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s. Millions of people did die of starvation and some are still dying today. Look, I understand the importance of shooting down liberal nonsense as well as any of us, but we have a responsibility to present the whole story, not just the side we like best. Otherwise, we're no better than the godless liberals. --[[User:RichardC|RichardC]] 12:38, 29 November 2008 (EST)

:Don't distract us with words like "insensitive". There's a guideline concerning this, if you care to dig into it. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 12:41, 29 November 2008 (EST)

::What would be a better way of expressing how selfish we must seem to complain that we are fat from too much food when so many people don't have enough to live? --[[User:RichardC|RichardC]] 12:49, 29 November 2008 (EST)

Talk:The Population Bomb

2008-11-29T17:38:27Z

RichardC:

User:RichardC

2008-11-29T17:27:50Z

RichardC: New page: My name is Richard Von Claudius. I'm an electrical engineer interested in robotic control systems. {{UB|Christian1}}

My name is Richard Von Claudius. I'm an electrical engineer interested in robotic control systems.
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The Population Bomb

2008-11-29T17:24:45Z

RichardC: Statements in this version of the article admit that starvation did occur in some parts of the world, giving a more fair and balanced view of the situation.

'''''The Population Bomb''''' (1968) is a book written by [[Paul R. Ehrlich]], which was immensely popular among [[liberals]] and taught in high schools throughout the 1970s, though many [[conservative]]s objected to the ideas put forth in the book.

The book declared that:

:''The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate ....''

Conservatives at the time objected to the book, which was based on the premise that the food supply would not increase to keep up with population growth (see ''[[Limits to Growth]]''). In fact, the food supply increased and mass starvation did not occur, except in parts of Asia <ref>http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/twe286f.htm</ref>and Africa<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/703958.stm</ref>, where the persistent risk of famine remains to this day.

However, Ehrlich was not the first to come up with this theory; His theory was a more calamitous version of the theory proposed by [[Thomas Malthus]] centuries earlier.

The theories of population growth underlying the book continue to be held by proponents of population control today, though they no longer cite the book as an authority.

A bestseller with the public, the book ranks #11 on a conservative list of the worst books of the 19th and 20th century.<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591 Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries] retrieved March 10, 2007</ref>

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