The Population Explosion Author:Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich When Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb in 1968, the population of Earth was 3.5 billion people. Today (1990) the population is 5.3 billion people, and growing by 95 million a year. We are supporting the current level of over-population only by depleting resources that were created over millions of years -- fertile top soils, ic... more »e-age groundwater, and other organisms that are working parts of our life-support systems.
The Population Explosion argues that unprecedented overpopulation is substantially contributing to problems as diverse as African famine, global warming, acid rain, air and water pollution, the garbage crisis, even epidemics such as AIDS. And overpopulation in rich countries such as the United States and other industrialized nations is, in important ways, more series than rapid population growth in poor countries.« less