Randall Hoven
The American Thinker
October 16, 2009
“I said that population, when unchecked, increased in a geometrical ratio; and subsistence for man in an arithmetical ratio.” Thomas Malthus, 1798
“The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.” Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb, 1968.
View the graph here: Human Population Growth Since 1750
World grain production increase from 1960 to 2000: 270%.
Percentage of world population living in poverty and hunger in 1960: 50%.
Today: 13%.
