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Malthus made this prediction at a time when the population had just crossed 1 billion. Ehrlich’s book was released in 1968

by which time the population had more than tripled

yet no worldwide famines materialized. On the contrary

the global population has since more than doubled again

to some 8 billion people. Meanwhile

the global incidence of hunger and the frequency and severity of famines has declined dramatically.