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The book’s opening lines capture his zero-sum Malthusian thinking: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

Astronomers believe that star formation can be slowed or stopped by different factors, all of which will starve a galaxy of the gas it needs to form new stars.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2024

The joke I make is that if you are on it, and someone leaves the room and doesn’t take you off, you will starve to death.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2024

That will starve the network of a major stream of revenue: the fees it collects from Verizon, which counts roughly 3.5 million cable subscribers.

From New York Times Jul. 26, 2022

They’ll feel how I do when I think about how the oceans are changing in all the worst ways, and how jellyfish will starve even whales.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin