Paul Ehrlich on Late Night Live

Paul Ehrlich’s book, The Population Bomb (1968), caused great controversy with its predictions of mass starvation in the 70s and 80s due to over-population. Forty years later, with the world’s population almost doubled in that time, Ehrlich’s main message is increasingly relevant – that the earth has a finite carrying capacity and it cannot sustain the current rate of human population growth and resource depletion.

In this conversation, Paul Ehrlich talks about the escalating environment pressures and some potential solutions.

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