From The Vaults: Why The Population Bomb Is a Rockefeller Baby
Originally published in Ramparts, a literary quarterly for the left-leaning cognoscente that ran from 1962 to 1975. The following piece from 1970, penned by Steve Weissman, is one of the few articles to be published online. Its interesting to see what has — and hasn’t — changed in the population debate and political climate in the four decades since.Steve Weissman, ‘Why The Population Bomb Is a Rockefeller Baby’, in Ramparts, Eco-Catastrophe (1970), pp. 27-41. Paul Ehrlich is a nice man. He does