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Whatever Happened to the “Population Bomb”?
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| June 1, 2015
| Steven Hayward
Posted on 06/02/2015 7:33:02 AM PDT by PROCON
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The Ehrlichs' then and the Al Gores' now; naysayers that have been proven wrong, yet many still believe.
**Facepalm**
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:33:02 AM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
The “population bomb” only works in a certain model, with certain characteristics, and theoretic ingredients.
Germany today has 80 million residents. In 2060, unless something happens to prevent it....it will be down to 64 million residents. Families are mostly having child only, and a quarter of population isn’t interested in having any kids. All of this comes from concept that women found education....were happy with careers, and just didn’t want motherhood tied to them.
By the end of the century....if nothing occurs to change the pace...Germany will have half the population that it has today.
To: PROCON
It was just the Liberal Boogie Man of the times.
The scare was used to justify legalizing abortions in the US.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:38:28 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: PROCON
the same thing that happened to nuclear winter.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:39:49 AM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: PROCON
hahaha! I still have a worn copy of “The Limits to Growth” on my bookshelf. It’s most hilarious book I’ve ever read! Did you know we’ve all already been dead for more than 20 years?
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:40:01 AM PDT
by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: PROCON
Population bomb = “thinking themselves wise, they became fools”
God said be fruitful and fill the earth.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:40:17 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: PROCON
What Erlich did not figure was the rapid growth of better agricultural technology and better means to transport food. The great famines that happened after Erlich wrote that book was all man made, either by war or deliberate political policy (read: the great famine in Ethiopia in the 1980's).
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:41:37 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: PROCON
Being 100% WRONG has not prevented Dr. Ehrlich from collecting honoraria and huge speaking fees from top-level universities.
To: PROCON
He later went on to forecast that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970sHe was right. Millions did starve to death in the '70s . . . in countries with Marxist economies.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:43:11 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: pepsionice
The gap in population in the West will be filled by (Islamic) immigration.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:43:51 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: Da Bilge Troll
Did you know weve all already been dead for more than 20 years?Yes and according to the prognosticators, we're all going to die again...and real soon.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:44:36 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
To: PROCON
The 1960’s population bomb was slowed down by the coming ice age of the 1970’s, the ozone layer hole of the 90’s, and the global warming of the 2000’s.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:45:26 AM PDT
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: PROCON
Its flowing across our borders at an ever increasing rate.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:46:38 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: JohnBrowdie
the same thing that happened to nuclear winter.And will happen to global climate change after the Left finally gains what it and every totalitarian regime in the history of mankind has always wanted.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:47:05 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: PROCON
No one was more influential or more terrifying, some would say than Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist. His 1968 book, The Population Bomb, sold in the millions with a jeremiad that humankind stood on the brink of apocalypse because there were simply too many of us. Dr. Ehrlichs opening statement was the verbal equivalent of a punch to the gut: The battle to feed all of humanity is over. He later went on to forecast that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s, that 65 million of them would be Americans, that crowded India was essentially doomed, that odds were fair England will not exist in the year 2000. Dr. Ehrlich was so sure of himself that he warned in 1970 that sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come. By the end, he meant an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity. As you may have noticed, England is still with us. So is India. Hundreds of millions did not die of starvation in the 70s. Humanity has managed to hang on, even though the planets population now exceeds seven billion, double what it was when The Population Bomb became a best-seller and its author a frequent guest of Johnny Carsons on The Tonight Show. . . After the passage of 47 years, Dr. Ehrlich offers little in the way of a mea culpa.
PFL
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:51:25 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: PROCON
I often say this. World had too many people, practice birth control.
Too many white people in America they meant.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:51:27 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: PROCON
Malthus said the same ting in 1798.
That was wrong too.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:55:24 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: PROCON
It was a Hogan’s Hero’s DUD!
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:55:45 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Alex Murphy
I was heartened that the NYTimes ran this article, which I take to be in indicator that some of the center-left elite are getting nervous that global warming will not pan out.
The following is a FACT and I urge all freepers to put this out there: in 2006, Al Gore appeared on Oprah and said, “Beijing will be underwater in fifteen years.” That means that the person who was awarded the Nobel Prize for pushing the Global Warming myth expects Beijing to be washed away within the next six years. Will Gore be called on his prediction in 2021?
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:56:36 AM PDT
by
utahagen
To: Alex Murphy
That’s why your job got outsourced to India. Because they all died of starvation by 1985. /s
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