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Steven Kotler is the author of West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief. His magazine writing has appeared in more than 31 publications. See full bio

The Five Year Ban Part III: Psychology and the Population Bomb

The Five Year Ban Part III: Why We Don't Want To Talk About Population

Well, those decades are now coming to a close and it’s high time we start talking about population problems again. Why? As Dr. Martin Luther King pointed out in 1966: “There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is solvable by means we have discovered and with resources we possess.”



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