Environmental Button
name: label: maker
content: Zero Population Growth
notes: label: Description
content: Produced by the group Zero Population Growth, this button highlights anxiety created by the continued growth of the world’s population, first remarked upon by Englishman Thomas Malthus in his 1798 work, <i>An Essay on the Principle of Population</i>. Paul R. Ehrlich’s bestselling book <i>The Population Bomb</i>, published in 1968, renewed interest in the topic by raising concerns about the potential risks of overpopulation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, Los Altos
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.0137
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.0137
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 6.3 cm; x 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in