Borlaug/Ehrlich

 Malthusian!

Norman Borlaug warned during his 1970 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, “[T]he frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the Green Revolution will be ephemeral only.”

In his later years, Paul Ehrlich described a transition
from a “bomb of [human] numbers” to a “bomb of
consumption.” He argued that the Green
Revolution merely “defused” the immediate
threat with fossil fuels and industrial chemistry,
essentially trading a short-term food crisis for
a long-term climate crisis. He often quipped,
“We didn’t solve the population problem; we
just financed it with a credit card issued by the
atmosphere.”

https://populationconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/June-2026-web.pdf