Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb was controversial on its initial publication in 1968 and remains more or less so today, claiming as it does that civilisation will collapse within decades due to unsustainable overpopulation and rabid consumption, which are destroying the natural world on which we depend for survival. Toxic chemicals, climate change and wealth inequality are the three horses of Ehrlich’s apocalypse, and although the dates of catastrophe stated in the original book have come and gone, the warning still rings true that if left unchecked, humanity’s presence on Earth will be its undoing.
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Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb was controversial on its initial publication in 1968 and remains more or less so today, claiming as it does that civilisation will collapse within decades due to unsustainable overpopulation and rabid consumption, which are destroying the natural world on which we depend for survival. Toxic chemicals, climate change and wealth inequality are the three horses of Ehrlich’s apocalypse, and although the dates of catastrophe stated in the original book have come and gone, the warning still rings true that if left unchecked, humanity’s presence on Earth will be its undoing.