In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

In 1968, Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which argued that mankind was facing a demographic catastrophe with the rate of population growth quickly outstripping growth in the supply of food and resources.

Among them were Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb ( 1968 ) revived concerns about the impact of exponential population growth.

* Paul R. Ehrlich ( 1968 ), The Population Bomb Controversial Neo-Malthusianist pamphlet

The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich ( who was uncredited ), in 1968.

The title Population Bomb was taken ( with permission ) from General William H. Draper, founder of the Population Crisis Committee and a pamphlet issued in 1954 by the Hugh Moore Fund.

Early editions of The Population Bomb began with the statement:

Although, they are now much less well known than Population Bomb, they inspired many works such as the original Population Bomb pamphlet by Hugh Everett Moore in 1954 that inspired the name of Ehrlich's book, as well as some of the original societies concerned with population and environmental matters.

Luten has said that although the book is often seen as a seminal work in the field, the Population Bomb is actually best understood as " climaxing and in a sense terminating the debate of the 1950s and 1960s .” Ehrlich has said that he traced his own Malthusian beliefs to a lecture he heard Vogt give when he was attending university in the early 1950s.

The Population Bomb has been characterized by critics as primarily a repetition of the Malthusian catastrophe argument that population growth will outpace agricultural growth unless controlled.

The UN report notes that the percentage of the world's population who qualify as " undernourished " has fallen by more than half, from 33 percent to about 16 percent, since Ehrlich published The Population Bomb.

One frequent criticism of The Population Bomb is that it focused on spectacle and exaggeration at the expense of accuracy.

Pierre Desrochers and Christine Hoffbauer remark that " at the time of writing The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich should have been more cautious and revised their tone and rhetoric, in light of the undeniable and already apparent errors and shortcomings of Osborn and Vogt ’ s analyses.

In a 2004 Grist Magazine interview, Ehrlich acknowledged some specific predictions he had made, in the years around the time The Population Bomb was published, that had not come to pass.

In answer to the question: " Were your predictions in The Population Bomb right?

The Population Bomb Revisited, Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, ( 2009 ) I ( 3 )

* The Population Bomb ( working title ), Documentary Film

Many earlier predictions of resource depletion, such as Thomas Malthus ' 1798 predictions about approaching famines in Europe, The Population Bomb ( 1968 ), Limits to Growth ( 1972 ), and the Simon – Ehrlich wager ( 1980 ) did not materialize, nor has diminished production of most resources occurred so far, one reason being that advancements in technology and science have allowed some previously unavailable resources to be produced.

The Hudson Institute sought to refute popular apocalyptic essays such as Paul Ehrlich's " The Population Bomb " ( 1968 ), Garrett Hardin's similarly reasoned " The Tragedy of the Commons ", published in the same year, and the Club of Rome's " Limits to Growth " ( 1972 ).

* Paul R. Ehrlich – The Population Bomb

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.

The most recent census was the 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census, which occurred in August 2011.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 2 007 000 in 2010, compared to only 413 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 16 469 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 284 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 8 383 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 456 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 599 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 466 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 496 000 in 2010, compared to only 178 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 4 401 000 in 2010, compared to only 1 327 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 738 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 630 000 in 1950.

Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 470 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; Ngazidja, which had a density of 250 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; and Mwali, where the 1991 population density figure was 120 persons per square kilometer.

A Population & Housing Census was carried out in 2001.

The most recent was the 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census, which occurred in August 2011.

Population and housing censuses for Mauritius was collected in 1972, 1983, and 2000 ; although respondents were asked to identify their race / ethnic origin in the 1972 census, this question was dropped from the following censuses because " the government felt that it was a divisive question ".

The first center for gender studies was opened within a newly formed Institute for the Socio − Economic Study of Human Population.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 65 966 000 in 2010, compared to only 12 184 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revision of the UN's World Population Prospects, the total population was 889, 000 in 2010 compared to 62, 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 700 000 in 2010, compared to only 226 000 in 1950.

After examining the position of women around the world, the Washington-based Population Crisis Committee reported in 1988 that Finland, slightly behind top-ranked Sweden and just ahead of the United States, was one of the very best places in which a woman could live.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 1 505 000 in 2010, compared to only 469 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 9 982 000 in 2010, compared to only 3 094 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 1 515 000 in 2010, compared to only 518 000 in 1950.