The Population Bomb

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” (soniashah.com/thenextgreatmigration)
• Barbarian Hordes: The overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourse (researchgate.net/publication/280209630_Barbari…)
• Optimism and Overpopulation (pinguet.free.fr/abernethy94.pdf)
• The Population Bomb Revisited (populationmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07…)
• The Strange History of Birth Control (web.archive.org/web/20140222201504/http:/www.p…)
• Birth Control for Others (nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Kristof-t.…)
• How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3777609)
• Why the Population Bomb is a Rockefeller Baby (underthemaskofphilanthropy.wordpress.com/2017/…)
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