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The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today

  • Written by Brian C. Keegan, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder; Harvard University
imageThe idea of overpopulation has been used to argue against immigration.Pandagolik/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Paul Ehrlich opened his 1968 book “The Population Bomb” with a scene recounting returning to his hotel through a crowded Delhi neighborhood on a stifling night in the mid-1960s. He described the physical sensation of overpopulation:...

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