• The Population Bomb is a 1968 book co-authored by former Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich and former Stanford senior researcher in conservation...
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    for the controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb, which he co-authored with his wife Anne H. Ehrlich, in which they famously stated that "[i]n the 1970s...
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    (2009). "The Post War Intellectual Roots of the Population Bomb" (PDF). The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development. 1 (3). Archived from the original...
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  • overpopulation was popularized by Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 book The Population Bomb and subsequent writings. Ehrlich described overpopulation as a function...
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  • Ehrlich's now widely disputed book The Population Bomb. Calhoun's worries primarily concerned a human population surge as an early stage, such as even...
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    and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000...
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  • Anne H. Ehrlich (category Activists from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    scientist and author who is best known for the predictions she made as a co-author of The Population Bomb with her colleague and husband, Paul R. Ehrlich...
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    result of population increase: The Population Bomb (1968); Population, resources, environment: issues in human ecology (1970, with Anne Ehrlich); The end of...
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  • (1766-1864) is perhaps the most well-known writer to have articulated the roots of the modern concept of human overshoot, with The Population Bomb (1967) by Paul...
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  • Population Bomb. The organization adopted its current name in 2002. "Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection...
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    environmentalist, published The Population Bomb in 1968, advocating stringent population planning policies. His central argument on population is as follows: A cancer...
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    fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large...
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    Myth Of The Muslim Population Bomb". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016. "Five charts that puncture the bogey of...
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  • The Population Bomb, Richard Bowers, a Connecticut lawyer, and Professor Charles Lee Remington.[unreliable source?] In the long term, zero population...
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  • Geraldine Chaplin. It was inspired by the best-selling 1968 non-fiction book The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich. The film concerns an overpopulated future...
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  • Bomb Queen is an American comic book supervillain in the Image Universe, created by Jimmie Robinson. She first appeared in Image Comics' Bomb Queen Vol...
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    A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive...
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    Demography (category Human populations)
    Ehrlich (1968), The Population Bomb Controversial Neo-Malthusianist pamphlet Leonid A. Gavrilov & Natalia S. Gavrilova (1991), The Biology of Life Span:...
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    Malthus's prediction. Malthusian Paul R. Ehrlich, in his 1968 book The Population Bomb, said that "India couldn't possibly feed two hundred million more...
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    and population size System dynamics – Study of non-linear complex systems Books: The Population Bomb – 1968 book predicting worldwide famine The Revenge...
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    Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe....
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  • Morris; author of The Naked Ape Natural disasters John Gribbin; author of The Jupiter Effect Paul Ehrlich; author of The Population Bomb William Paddock;...
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    Norman Borlaug (category Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil))
    Ehrlich wrote in his 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, "The battle to feed all of humanity is over ... In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions...
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    threats to the environment and humanity. Among them were Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb (1968) revived Malthusian concerns about the impact...
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  • dirty bomb or radiological dispersal device is a radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of the weapon...
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  • A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large...
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    the civilian population of the United Kingdom. After further experiments with 5-litre barrels of benzol, in 1918, the B-1E Elektron fire bomb (German: Elektronbrandbombe)...
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    Poland and the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) began bombing Polish cities and the civilian population in an aerial bombardment campaign. As the war continued...
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    The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop...
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  • Julian Simon (category Member of the Mont Pelerin Society)
    Paul R. Ehrlich's 1968 book, The Population Bomb, and the Club of Rome's 1972 report, The Limits to Growth. By then, the view of scarcity among economists...
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