Population growth in sub-Saharan Africa raises food supply alarm
When Harry Harrison published Make Room!, Make Room! in 1966 – a dystopian vision of an overpopulated world of 7bn people that rationed food rigorously – the global population was just over 3bn.
It captured the spirit of the times, which continued into the 1970s and 1980s, featuring successive and repeated warnings of a world growing so rapidly it would quickly exhaust its ability to feed itself….
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