The population bomb.

By N. Williams. Current Biology, 2008

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Fertility trends by social status (2008, background): “…growth in order to contribute to environmental sustainability may have affected fertility preferences particularly among the tertiary educated, as the discussion on the impact of population growth on the environment took place in university environments (Ehrlich 1968, Meadows et al. 1972).”
Implications of population ageing for economic growth (2010, background): “(Malthus, 1798; Ehrlich, 1968) 13 According to the Penn World Tables (version 6.2), total global GDP per capita in 2000 was US$7,565 (at 2000 purchasing power parity).”
Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice (2014, neutral): “Explosive population growth [289]”
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Seeking Empirical Regularity and Theoretical Structure (2010, background): “, Frank and Bernanke 2005), a very different view was set out by Ehrlich and Holden (1971). Much of the science and policy community still subscribes to their famous IPAT equation (I = PAT), which relates Impact (e.”
The political economy of food systems reform (2017, background): “Ehrlich predicted in his best-selling book, The Population Bomb, that under a business-as-usual scenario, entire regions would be facing starvation, as agricultural output would be unable to catch up with demographic growth combined with the shifting diets linked to urbanisation (Ehrlich, 1968).”
Rewilding – A New Paradigm for Nature Conservation in Scotland? (2011, background): “Leopold’s philosophy had more immediate roots in the burgeoning environmental and Deep Ecology movements, typified by the writings of Arne Naess, Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich (e.g. Carson 1962; Ehrlich 1968; Naess 1973).”
Population Aging and Economic Growth (2008, background): “In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death” (Ehrlich 1968).”
Design principles for global commons: Natural resources and emerging technologies (2011, background): “The Population Bomb.”
New Cohort Fertility Forecasts for the Developed World: Rises, Falls, and Reversals (2013, background): “Public concern about the "population bomb" has in recent decades been replaced with fears of "empty cradles" and "demographic winter" (Ehrlich 1971; Longman 2004; Stout 2008).”
The ecosystem services agenda:bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy (2012, methodology): “So in Section 2 we have used Mooney and Ehrlich’s chapter in (1997) and added a number of items and authors we consider at least as worthwhile as the selection by Mooney and Ehrlich. In Section 2.1. we have used the paper by GómezBaggethun et al. (2010) which in turn is strongly influenced by Martı́”