In 1968, Paul and Anne Ehrlich published their best-selling book The Population Bomb. In it, they predicted that as the world population outpaced food production, widespread famine would bedevil the future. To prevent such a thing, the made some bold prescriptions -- e.g., cutting off food supplies to problematic countries. But what really happened?

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