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Building the Population Bomb

by Emily Klancher Merchant

Across the twentieth century, Earth’s human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the world’s most serious problems, from global poverty to environmental degradation, and became an object of intervention for governments and nongov

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780197558942