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:''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 ....''

:''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. In fact, the food supply increases at a rate faster than population growth, as a person can grow far more food than is necessary to feed himself.{{fact}}

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 countries with inefficient infrastructure or anti-Capitalist economies (see [[Bangladesh]]).

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.

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.