List of Predictions - Prophets of Doom and Cornucopians

Prophets of Doom and Cornucopians

  • An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus in 1798 started the fears of a Malthusian catastrophe where overpopulation returns people to mere subsistence.
  • The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968 predicted disasters due to Neo-Malthusian concerns.
  • The Limits to Growth (1972, by Club of Rome) -often, erroneously, accused of predicting the inevitable exhaustion of natural resources. See the main article for more detail.

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