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The Population Bomb

If Books Could Kill
If Books Could Kill
Episode • Dec 15, 2022 • 49m

How a Stanford lepidopterist convinced the world to fear the breeding habits of the poor. Again.

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Sources:

  • Sonia Shah’s “The Next Great Migration”
  • Barbarian Hordes: The overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourse
  • Optimism and Overpopulation
  • The Population Bomb Revisited
  • The Strange History of Birth Control
  • Birth Control for Others
  • How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History
  • Why the Population Bomb is a Rockefeller Baby
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