You can read Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb” on-line here: https://archive.org/details/populationbom00ehrl (you may need to register for a free Internet Archive account to read more than a few pages). Just make sure you have a barf bag nearby before you start reading it.
The New York Times glorification is here: Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93 — His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.