Why overpopulation fears haven t come true Freethink Wrong

A pervasive fear of overpopulating the world swept America and other countries in the late 1960s and ‘70s, but a revolution in food production turned predictions of a population bomb into a worldwide boom. Subscribe: video begins with social science experts of yesteryear who made many predictions that exponential growth in human populations would result in overpopulation, starvation and eventually extinction. This theory was encapsulated in Paul Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb. However, these fears were never realized. Among other things, Norman Borlaug led initiatives termed the "Green Revolution" that made increasing populations in the developing world a non-issue. Why didn't people see this coming, even though technological advances have consistently made life better across the earth? We explore it in the Freethink documentary video "We're All Gonna Starve."

What do you think - did we get it right or wrong? Are other threats like climate change now going to threaten the earth, or will we find ways to deal with them in time as well? Let us know what you think in the comments and subscribe for more videos every week.


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