History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2133 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Population Bomb
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The idea
Digital History records the nineteen sixty-eight bestseller The Population Bomb, by a Stanford ecologist, warning that world population growth was outstripping the earth's supply of food, fresh water and minerals.
In practice
The Yawp's note that intellectual and social changes had begun to reshape public debates about the environment.
Where people slip
Digital History says it was in the nineteen sixties that environmentalism became a mass movement.
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