If Books Could Kill

By Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

The Population Bomb

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Published December 15, 2022 4:00am

How a Stanford lepidopterist convinced the world to fear the breeding habits of the poor. Again.

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Sources:Sonia Shah’s “The Next Great Migration” Barbarian Hordes: The overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourseOptimism and OverpopulationThe Population Bomb RevisitedThe Strange History of Birth ControlBirth Control for OthersHow the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic HistoryWhy the Population Bomb is a Rockefeller Baby

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