How a Stanford lepidopterist convinced the world to fear the breeding habits of the poor. Again. <a href='https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod'>Support us on Patreon</a> Where to find us: <ul><li><a href='https://twitter.com/IfBooksPod'>Twitter</a></li><li><a href='https://www.fivefourpod.com/'>Peter's other podcast, 5-4</a></li><li><a href='https://www.maintenancephase.com/'>Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase</a></li></ul>Sources:<ul><li><a href='https://soniashah.com/thenextgreatmigration/'>Sonia Shah’s “The Next Great Migration” </a></li><li><a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280209630_Barbarian_Hordes_The_overpopulation_scapegoat_in_international_development_discourse'>Barbarian Hordes: The overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourse</a></li><li><a href='http://pinguet.free.fr/abernethy94.pdf'>Optimism and Overpopulation</a></li><li><a href='http://www.populationmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Population-Bomb-Revisited-Paul-Ehrlich-20096.pdf'>The Population Bomb Revisited</a></li><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/20140222201504/http:/www.powells.com/review/2008_08_18.html'>The Strange History of Birth Control</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Kristof-t.html'>Birth Control for Others</a></li><li><a href='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3777609/'>How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History</a></li><li><a href='https://underthemaskofphilanthropy.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/why-the-population-bomb-is-a-rockefeller-baby/'>Why the Population Bomb is a Rockefeller Baby</a></li></ul>

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