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The Coming Apocalypse

Reflections on the approaching death of everything we know

I read The Population Bomb in the early 70s, a few years after its publication in 1968. I was considering having children, wondering whether I should or not, and author Paul Erlich’s answer to that question would have been an unequivocal no. The world was awash with people; that was the premise of his book. We were multiplying…