Population equation: balancing what we need with what we have.(Environews/ Focus)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Dahl, Richard | Copyright information

Planet Earth, now home to about 6.5 billion human beings, has thus far disproved the doomsayers. In 1798, Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus predicted that population would outrun food supply on the assumption that human numbers would increase at a geometric rate while food would be limited to arithmetic increases. Then, in 1968, Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich issued a similar warning in his book The Population Bomb, in which he predicted that hundreds of millions of people ...

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