Draper, founder of the Population Crisis Committee and a widely spread pamphlet The Population Bomb is Everyone's Baby issued in 1954 by the Hugh Moore Fund. The title Population Bomb was taken (with permission) from General William H. Although the Ehrlichs collaborated on the book, the publisher insisted that a single author be credited, and also asked to change their preferred title: Population, Resources, and Environment. The Population Bomb was written at the suggestion of David Brower, the executive director of the environmentalist Sierra Club, and Ian Ballantine of Ballantine Books following various public appearances Ehrlich had made regarding population issues and their relation to the environment.
It shows the extremely rapid growth in the world population since the eighteenth century. Graph of human population from 10,000 BC to 2017 AD.
They believe that it achieved their goals because "it alerted people to the importance of environmental issues and brought human numbers into the debate on the human future." General description of the book The Ehrlichs themselves stand by the book despite the flaws identified by its critics, with Paul stating in 2009 that "perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future", despite having predicted catastrophic global famines that never came to pass. The book has been criticized since its publication for an alarmist tone, and over the subsequent decades, for inaccurate assertions and failed predictions. Fears of a "population explosion" existed in the mid-20th century baby boom years, but the book and its authors brought the idea to an even wider audience. It predicted worldwide famine due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Ehrlich and (currently) Stanford senior researcher emeritus in conservation biology Anne Howland Ehrlich.
The Population Bomb is a 1968 book co-authored by (currently) Stanford University Professor emeritus Paul R.
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