The Population Bomb, the Sierra Club’s David Brower similarly presumed fixed r/K–like differences between people who lived in different places. “Countries are divided rather neatly into two groups,”18 Brower wrote. “Those with rapid growth rates, and those with relatively slow growth rates.” The fast growers, he wrote, were “not industrialized, tend to have inefficient agriculture, very small gross national products, high illiteracy rates and related problems.” The slow growers, presumably, were just the opposite. Ehrlich’s fellow neo-Malthusian scientists,19 such as Kingsley Davis, explicitly
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