Paul Ehrlich in the 1968 book The Population Bomb: "In the 1970s the world will undergo famines-hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Actually death rate from famine shifted sharply lower in the 1970s and has declined even more since then. pic.twitter.com/u5OgzoZFgh
— William Easterly (@bill_easterly) August 26, 2021