This week, I am continuing with issues of sustainability, and for that, we will take a close look at one of the most notorious books in the history of the environmental movement: The Population Bomb by Paul and Anne Ehrlich.
The 1968 edition said that the famines were inevitable in the 1970s - the 1980s reference was added to the later editions (with of course no acknowledgment by Ehrlich of the change). Why the change? Let’s just say that Borlaug’s Green Revolution had taken off with the result India was exporting grain rather than importing it.
The 1968 edition said that the famines were inevitable in the 1970s - the 1980s reference was added to the later editions (with of course no acknowledgment by Ehrlich of the change). Why the change? Let’s just say that Borlaug’s Green Revolution had taken off with the result India was exporting grain rather than importing it.
Thanks for clarifying. I did not know this, but I am not at all surprised.