Population Bomb

  While we're getting distracted by all the other problems we're going to face, the population bomb is intertwined with all of them.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/09/alan-weisman-inquiring-minds-population-countdown

 "Everybody says that Norman Borlaug, the great plant geneticist, he disproved Malthus and Ehrlich forever," he explains. "It's kind of cherry-picked, because the part that they neglect to add, Norman Borlaug's Nobel acceptance speech, he didn't sit there congratulating himself—as he was congratulated by others—for saving more lives than any other human in history. He said, 'We have bought the world some time, but unless population control and increased food production go hand in hand, we are going to lose this.'"

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