Within living memory, a scientist wrote a bestseller declaring “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” It was 1968 when Paul Ehrlich declared that humans had lost the battle and predicted mass starvation and hundreds of millions of deaths in the years ahead.

Science made the scientist wrong — and Ehrlich’s population bomb was defused.

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