Book Zero Population Growth

The shock of global population decline 2019 by darrel bricker and john ibbitson is a fascinating book that makes the case the global population is likely to peak sooner than un population predictions suggest and looks at why populations are declining and the what the impact of declining populations is likely to be.

Book zero population growth. The population bomb is a best selling book written by stanford university professor paul r. The population explosion is a different book by the same author updated to 1991. The battle to feed all of humanity is over.

Shortly after my wife graduated from college she joined zero population growth looking back she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading paul ehrlich s apocalyptic claims in his book the population bomb ehrlich wrote. Ehrlich recalled i wanted to call the organization something like study of population and resources. Many people argue that both books are outdated as the earth has added more than a billion people since 1991.

It predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation as well as other major societal upheavals and advocated immediate action to limit population growth fears of a population explosion were widespread in the. Paul ralph ehrlich is an american biologist best known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. It gave a huge jolt to the nascent environmental movement and fueled an anti population growth crusade that led to human rights abuses around the world.

Population growth rate compares the average annual percent change in populations resulting from a surplus or deficit of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country. The population bomb published in 1968 can be considered outdated now. The discrepancy between rates of human population growth and agricultu.

Heinemann educational 1974 ocolc 613122728. He is the bing professor emeritus of population studies of the department of biology of stanford university and president of stanford s center for conservation biology. Bowers remington and ehrlich understood the concept but felt that it was not necessarily an obvious name choice.

The rate may be positive or negative. Ehrlich and his wife anne ehrlich who was uncredited in 1968. Zero population growth was used by demographers and had been coined by kingsley davis in 1967.