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of the human population on the world’s resources, and of
Earth’s carrying capacity for our species. Ehrlich’s 1968
book, The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine Books),
played an important role in the beginning of the modern
environmental movement, and for this reason can be
considered a classic.
Concise History of World Population
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, paperback, 2001). A wellwritten
introduction to the field of human demography.
Sparing Nature: The Conflict between Human
Population Growth and Earth’s Biodiversity (New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003). One of the
few recent books about human populations.