Justin Fox, Columnist

Why 'The Population Bomb' Bombed

The Green Revolution defused the threat of mass starvation.

June 1, 2015 at 7:40 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.

Any aphorism that gets attributed to both Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra (as well as Samuel Goldwyn, Mark Twain and others), has got to have something going for it. It is difficult to make predictions about the future.