As the world steadily marches toward record-breaking population figures, Need to Know time travels to the late '60s/early '70s, when "overpopulation" was a frightening issue that occupied a substantial slice of the American psyche.
Features interviews with Paul Ehrlich (Stanford University), Roy Beck (NumbersUSA), and Derek Hoff (Kansas State University).
It may be controversial for PBS to use the founder of an immigration reduction group as an expert, but Beck is indeed influential in the environmental movement.
From the July 15, 2011 edition of
Need to Know.
Also supplemented by an
interview with reporters Phillip Longman and Julia Whitty. Longman wrote
The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What To Do About It in 2004. Whitty writes for
Mother Jones magazine.
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