![]() ![]() ![]() (Among other things, the Club of Rome predicted that the planet’s oil reserves would be exhausted by 1992.) The movement was in such a lather that in 1967, Disney produced a movie for the Population Council, titled Family Planning. In 1972, the Club of Rome published a tract, The Limits to Growth, echoing Ehrlich’s forecast. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Food for Peace Act he required USAID officers to “exert the maximum leverage and influence” on the countries we were helping so that they’d cut down on their baby-making. ![]() Groups such as the Ford Foundation and the International Planned Parenthood Federation pushed to introduce birth control and abortion in developing countries. government and various interest groups were quick to respond: Last points out that when Ehrlich wrote his book in ’68, the U.S. Last’s new book What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disasterdiscusses the overpopulation alarmists’ false predictions, their true intentions, and the consequences all of us will pay for the unnecessary panic. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich’s book Population Bomb said that hundreds of millions of people would perish as a result of an overpopulated earth. ![]() Despite doom and gloom predictions that never came to pass, overpopulation alarmists continue to make their case that society must restrict the procreation of human beings. ![]()
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