The population bomber: Paul Ehrlich, prophet of the population explosion, dies at age 93

“The battle to feed 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.” Those words were published in 1968 and were written by Paul Ehrlich, one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, as the opening words in The Population Bomb, one of the most influential works of the era.Ehrlich, who died last week at age 93, was the most consequential false prophet of the population control movement, o