How’s this for the opening of a book? “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.”
So begins the late biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 classic The Population Bomb. Ehrlich, who died a fortnight ago, not only predicted that countries like India were doomed, but that there would be mass starvation in the United States.
