The first sentence set the tone: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” And humanity had lost. It would become one of the most influential books of the 20th century-and one of the most heatedly attacked. But over time Ehrlich’s tract would sell millions of copies and turn its author into a celebrity. In May, Ehrlich released a quickly written, cheaply bound paperback, The Population Bomb. The book was published so hastily the fuse bomb pictured on the cover was “ticking.”Īs 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to the average person.
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