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EPIB Trail
Food Is Replaceable, but You Are Not Replaceable
Volume 12, Issue 1
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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed
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-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, an entomologist at Stanford University, published one of the most well-known books of the 20th century entitled The Population Bomb. In his groundbreaking book, he acclaimed that humanity was rapidly heading towards “mass starvation” unless efforts were made to drastically reduce population growth. Many people were appalled by the extreme position held by Paul By Ryan Piccininni Ehrlich, but it didn’t stop a new environmental movement from taking form; an environmental movement focused on limiting population growth, so we can better provide adequate food and resources to people. Limiting population growth could involve abortion procedures, birth control or having governments enforce a limit to how many children a family can have, like the two-child policy in China.
(Part I)
The population Control Activists (Neo-Malthusians) are not the only group involved in this discussion. The moderates agree with the Neo-Malthusians to a certain degree that over-population is a problem, but they do not recognize as a major problem. Finally, the Marxist position maintains that overpopulation is not a problem, but distribution of resources can cause mass starvation. For purposes of this article series, I will be taking the position that the Earth is not suffering from a population problem. I
