10-02-2023 15:00 via discovermagazine.com

Earth's Population Has Hit 8 Billion People, But There's Still Hope For Us Yet

In 1798, Thomas Malthus, an English economist and demographer, published “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” in which he predicted that human population growth would eventually exceed the Earth’s ability to provide enough food for everyone. This would lead to famine, disease, war and other associated travails. So far, that hasn’t happened. In 1968, 170 years later, Paul Ehrlich published a book titled, The Population Bomb, another
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