US academic and author of The Population Bomb (1968), an influential – though often described as alarmist – text which predicts Disaster as a result of Overpopulation. Various gloomy Predictions about damage to Ecology are fictionalized in his short "Eco-Catastrophe!" (September 1969 Ramparts). [DRL]

see also: Z.P.G. (1971).

Paul Ralph Ehrlich

born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 29 May 1932

died

works

• The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine, 1968) [nonfiction: hb/]

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