“By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people ... If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
–Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971. (note that the quote by Ehrlich is not from the book)
Everyone panic! Wiki says the UK's population was 58,789,194 in 2001 but Ehrlich's prediction was 70 million hungry people. The mass starvation must have already begun!
the UK population estimate for 2024 is 69,281,437.
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