The World Inside
“A 1968 work by the biologist Paul Ehrlich provided an updated version of Malthus’s nineteenth-century horror story about the inevitability of famine, in which he had claimed to have demonstrated mathematically that population growth must always far outstrip food production. Ehrlich’s equally somber book The Population Bomb had offered this grim and terrifying view of the years just ahead: The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will star...ve 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. . . .
Harsh words. And a few years later a study group calling itself The Club of Rome had issued a book called The Limits to Growth, a report “on the predicament of mankind,” which showed our predicament to be dire indeed as the supply of food fell further and further behind the world’s relentless population growth.
But of course science-fiction had been dealing with Malthusian issues for a long time.MoreLess
Harsh words. And a few years later a study group calling itself The Club of Rome had issued a book called The Limits to Growth, a report “on the predicament of mankind,” which showed our predicament to be dire indeed as the supply of food fell further and further behind the world’s relentless population growth.
But of course science-fiction had been dealing with Malthusian issues for a long time.MoreLess
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