While the female mosquito population bombed by five-fold, the male mosquito population plummeted by eight-fold. (pbs.org)
And, as political scientist Bradley Thayer of Baylor University argues in the same issue, national population bombs trigger war, especially of the internecine civil variety, as well as terrorism as «youth bulges» in Middle Eastern countries leave large masses of young men without economic prospects. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Saving lives through technological progress has helped ignite a population bomb that now threatens many more than were saved. (religion-online.org)