The Population Explosion.

EHRLICH, Paul R. and Anne H.

Item Number: 88084

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

First edition of Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s warning study of population growth and consequential limited resources. Signed twice by the author, “Paul R. Ehrlich” on the front free endpaper and inscribed, “For Nancy with many thanks for your help and patience, Paul” on the title page. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel & Scher. An exceptional example.

American biologist Paul Ralph Ehrlich gained a reputation in the scientific community for his dire predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. In his controversial book The Population Bomb (1968), Ehrlich asserted that the world's human population would soon increase to the point in which mass starvation would become inevitable. In the Population Explosion, Ehrlich further explores the environmental issue with a particular focus on the subjects of global warming, rain forest destruction, famine, air and water pollution.