Mentioned 4 times on 1 show. Most recently heard 19/10/2026.
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“And his wife, Sandra Kahn, is still on the faculty at Stanford. Paul wrote, of course, The Population Bomb. Paul and Sandra wrote the book, Jaws, with, I think, had a foreword by you and maybe an introduction from Bob Sapolsky about mouth breathing being detrimental to facial structure development and as well as health”
“But he got some things right, and some people would argue he got certain things wrong. Like the population bomb, my understanding was that it argued that we're going to be badly overpopulated by time we reach now and that that was dangerous. Some people would argue that birth rates are going down.”
“We're depleting the world's forests. We're depleting the world's topsoil. Paul and his wife Anne, the book The Population Bomb, called attention to the danger of population growth. And one can now add to population growth multiplied by consumption per person.”
“Long been a fan of his work and him, and I agree. And Jaws is a wonderful book, and I think the population bomb still has great. There's real value in reading it, even if the specific statements, as you point out, held up differently.”