Posted on 03/06/2010 5:54:59 AM PST by mattstat
Hi, I’m scientist Paul Ehrlich. You might remember me from such failed predictions as “Everybody’s Going to Die by 1984!” and “Tin to Become More Precious than Water!”
Today, I’m going to foretell you another story of coming calamity. This story is about our climate, and how if something isn’t done right now, or even yesterday, we will all, once more, be consigned to cataclysm.
But this time we have a chance! Because this time, we know how to fight back. We know who are enemies are, and we know how to hit ‘em where it hurts.
Paul Ehrlich
Before I tell you about that, let me take you on a journey that started in 1968.
It was a time of free experimentation. A time of rebellion, happiness, and unbridled liberty. Everywhere the young were throwing off the shackles of the old. Mankind—and womankind—was growing up.
This wasn’t just happening in popular culture; no, sir! This went on in science, too. In labs all across the country, men—and women—were tossing off their restrictive lab coats and engaging in wild speculation!
And I was in on it. I can proudly say that I led the way. Is was I who began to understand that soon—yes, very, very soon—hundreds of millions of people were going to die. Not millions, not tens of millions, but hundreds of millions!
Why? Because...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
A classic example of having no shame.
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Is this the same guy that was predicting we would all starve to death...when the global population was 1/3 of what it is today, when global nutrition has improved markedly?
Yeah, Paul. You’re relevant.
And, once again, common-sense Americans have proved another leftist fear-mongering to be the lie that it is. The population bomb proved to be a fizzled firecracker. AGW proved to be just a lie.
And, once again, we’ve also proved that the left will stop at nothing to clench the iron fist of communism around our throat.
Could this not also be a reflexive moment? (definition as a noun: performed as a reflex, without conscious thought : Ex.: at concerts like this one, standing ovations have become reflexive)
Now’s our chance, Bin Laddie has declared war on us, fight back, kill 400-500 million arabs, put a big dent in the world population worries, global warming, and Y2K.
Paul got his start in academia studying butterflies. Nothing much has changed since.
Yes, he is the author of the "Population Bomb" [1968] and other "We are Doomed" tracts. He is equally famous for an ill-fated (for him) wager with noted conservative Economist/Business Academic Julian L Simon in 1980 about Ehrlich-chosen commodity prices over the next 10 years.
An interesting side-note is that one of Ehrlich's advocates, advisors and judges of this wager was a gent named John Holdren. If that name sounds familiar, he is Obama's current "Science Czar". "By their friends, you shall know them!"
Nobody ever expects the butterfly
Did ANYONE here read the article? It sounds as though he’s satirizing the climate change crowd. Did he perhaps get mugged by reality?
In addition to your note about Julian Simon, it was Simon’s winning of that gentleman’s bet that encouraged a far-left eco-whacko (and former Green Peace leader) named Bjorn Lomborg to re-examine much of the data that environmentalists were using to condemn industrialization.
What he found was that the environmentalists for years have only been telling half the story of their data, that, when you study the complete data, it proves to grand improvements to both the environment and the human condition at-large (better food, better medicine, better homes, better living conditions)...all of this because of industrialization.
He documented his findings in “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” and, for his honesty, he was torn to shreds by his former colleagues. He’s still a lefty, but at least he is painting an honest picture of what is happening in the environment and that industrialization is not an enemy, but a friend, provided there is competition, of course (China’s industrialization is a disgrace because the government gives carte blanche and eliminates competition).
I thought Paul Erlich died during the mass famines and rebellions that destroyed the US back in the 70’s and 80’s
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