De formule wil ik geloven. Het is inderdaad een en - en verhaal. Maar overbevolking is zeker een belangrijke factor, zelfs de belangrijkste. En dat zijn de woorden van de schrijver zelf. Niet in 1972, maar in 2004.
De fouterkenning hieronder slaat op het feit dat amerika niet is uitgehongerd in de seventies and eighties
Maar de boodschap blijft dezelfde.
Citaat:
In a 2004 Grist Magazine interview,[2] Ehrlich acknowledged some specific predictions he had made, in the years around the time his Population Bomb was published, that had not come to pass. However, as to a number of his fundamental ideas and assertions he maintained that facts and science proved them valid.
Among other things Ehrlich had to say was the following:
“ When I wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, there were 3.5 billion people. Since then we've added another 2.8 billion — many more than the total population (2 billion) when I was born in 1932. If that's not a population explosion, what is? My basic claims (and those of the many scientific colleagues who reviewed my work) were that population growth was a major problem. Fifty-eight academies of science said that same thing in 1994, as did the world scientists' warning to humanity in the same year.
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En wat er na het vette komt, zou ik ook niet negeren.