Paul Ehrlich and his wife, associate director of Stanford’s Center for Conservation Biology Anne Ehrlich, sounded the Malthusian alarm once again in a best-selling book called The Population Bomb. When I was young, that book had a rather prominent place on my father’s bookshelf—right at eye level for a young boy. The cover was disturbing: a plump, smiling baby sitting inside a bomb with a lit fuse. I had nightmares about that.
Might give it a read. The haber process is currently sustaining food production, what a twisted irony that haber sustained population growth over the last 100 years.
