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Have We Reached the Limits to Growth?
Dire Warnings In 1967, William and Paul Paddock’s best-selling book Famine 1975! argued that stagnant agricultural productivity and growing populations would mean abandoning countries like Egypt and Haiti to starvation by the middle of the next decade. (1) In 1968, Stanford biologist Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Existential Risk
Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, economic growth, existential risk, famine, fertility rates, green revolution, haber-bosch, jfk, julian simon, limits to growth, longreads, paul ehrlich, paul paddock, planetary boundaries, planetary resources, population growth, ramez naam, ronald reagan, thomas malthus, william crookes, william paddock
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