Comments on: Why the Population Bomb bombed https://allentiffany.com/the-population-bomb/ My first novel - historical military fiction - made it to the top 10 of 9 of Amazon's bestseller lists. Via my blog I share what I have learned while writing two more. Sun, 02 Sep 2018 15:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: saltlake62@gmail.com https://allentiffany.com/the-population-bomb/#comment-47 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 01:21:30 +0000 https://www.allentiffany.com//?p=2300#comment-47 In reply to Rick Ellrod.

Hey Rick! I have not read that book in ~30 years, but very much enjoyed Niven and Pournelle’s work when I was younger. I think every generation has to have one or two scary things to obsess about. The reality is there is a bit of truth in all of them and in some cases a lot of truth. The longer to unfold and the more complex to explain (eg global warming) the harder they are to identify for what they are. Alarmist nonsense just makes the truth harder to comprehend as the boy who cried wolf discovered.

]]> By: Rick Ellrod https://allentiffany.com/the-population-bomb/#comment-46 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:47:07 +0000 https://www.allentiffany.com//?p=2300#comment-46 I was recently involved in a book club discussion about Niven & Pournelle’s 1974 *The Mote in God’s Eye* . .. and had occasion to observe how neatly certain aspects of the plot tied in with the then-pervasive fears about overpopulation.

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