Discusses our continually increasing population, its causes and consequences, and efforts by governments and individuals to control its growth.

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic “facts” that created a mathematical panic about a looming population expl

Building the Population Bomb carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments

If current world population trends were to continue, human numbers could more than double to 13 billion people by the end of this century. Given humanity's cons