Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death during the 1970s.
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“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”
- Said on
- 1 May 1968 · Opening prologue of The Population Bomb (book published May 1968; first of month used since only month/year known).
- Source
- Doomster Paul Ehrlich Unrepentant · Reason
- Should come true
- 1970s
- How sure they sounded
- will; in spite of any crash programs (stated as certain)
- Categories
- Health
- Importance
- 5 of 5 · A mass famine killing hundreds of millions would be a civilization-scale catastrophe; the claim shaped global population policy.
Outcome
Inaccurate
No global famine killing hundreds of millions occurred in the 1970s; regional famines (e.g. Bangladesh 1974) killed far fewer, while world calories per person rose. Even Ehrlich's own later estimate of 200-300 million hunger deaths was spread over about 40 years, not one decade.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/
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