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Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000

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Mar 21, 20268:58News & Politics

Paul Ehrlich’s bestselling book The Population Bomb opens with an apocalyptic paragraph. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” it states. “In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to deat...

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Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000 is an episode from More or Less: Behind the Stats by BBC. Paul Ehrlich’s bestselling book The Population Bomb opens with an apocalyptic paragraph. “The battle to feed all...

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Published Mar 21, 2026, 8:58 long, audio available.

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