Quotes and Source

Quotes

"For the first time in human history, global civilization is threatened with collapse."?

--Stanford population studies professor Paul Ehrlich, in a speech to the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, August 2

"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."?

--Ehrlich in his 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb

Source

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