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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’ Scientific American Book Review 17 Sep, 2024 | 688 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ In the 1960s and 1970s American society suffered a yearslong collective panic about the perceived threat of overpopulation. Biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on The Tonight Show to tout The Population Bomb, his 1968 polemic about human numbers run amok. The 1973 film Soylent Green depicted a squalid hellscape in which surplus people would be processed into food. College students pledged to remain childless for the benefit of Earth. This anxiety originated, in part, in the laboratory of John Bumpass Calhoun, an enigmatic ecologist who spent decades documenting the adverse effects of overcrowding on rodents in elaborate experimental “cities.” Calhoun is largely obscure today, but few scien
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