Posted on 05/23/2014 10:28:47 AM PDT by Morgana
Paul Ehrlich a radically pro-abortion population control professor of “Ethics” from Stanford has claimed overpopulation could lead to humanity having to eat the bodies of the dead.
‘We will soon be asking is it perfectly okay to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry?,‘ he told HuffPost live host Josh Zepps.
paulehrlichEhrlich tells Zepps that “Ethics is hardly discussed in our media…How much do we really car about future generations…”
Zepps asked Ehrlich what he would do if her were “Emperor of the World.”
Ehrlich replies, “The first thing I would do is make every possible move to give women full equal rights and opportunities. And give every sexually active person complete access to modern contraception and where necessary, backed up abortion…”
Ehrlich says that current population trends are on a course that could leave cannibalism as one of the only options.
Ehrlich claimed that scarcity of resources will get so bad that humans will need to drastically change our eating habits and agriculture.
He added that humanity is ‘moving in that direction with a ridiculous speed.
‘In other words between now and 45 years from now, 2.5 billion people will be added to the planet.
‘We are moving towards resource wars.
Ehrlich is widely known for his 1968 publication of ‘The Population Bomb’ which called for ‘population control’ to prevent global crises from overpopulation.
But Ehrlich has been predicting this gloom and doom for years:
‘In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death,’ he predicted. ‘Our children will inherit a totally different world, a world in which the standards, politics, and economics of the 1960’s are dead.’
His solution- Population Control….abortion…sterilization….and yes….infanticide..
The author of the 1972 book the Population bomb has told Raw Story that giving people the right to have as many children as they want is “a bad idea.”
“Giving people the right to have as many people as many children that they want is, I think, a bad idea,” Ehrlich told Raw Story. “It’s not giving people the right to have as many children as they want, it’s giving people the right to control their reproduction so that they don’t have so many children that their children’s and grandchildren’s lives are in danger.”
“Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins,” Ehrlich continued. “That may be a hard-nosed view, but if you look at the entire situation, it’s crystal clear if we keep the populations of the rich growing, then the poor aren’t going to have a chance, and eventually, the descendants of the rich aren’t going to have a chance either.”
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In a recent speech at Macquarie University he said, “For example, having a kid is one thing. If you add a second kid or you have the choice of adding a second kid or buying four hummers, you’re doing much more environmental damage by having the second kid than buy four hummers. Because, of course, besides all the consumption that that child is going to have – the hummers don’t reproduce.”
Paul R. Ehrlich has authored another book with Michael Charles Tobias. In Hope on Earth both Ehrlich and Tobias argue that we are on the verge of environmental catastrophe, as the human population continues to grow without restraint and without significant attempts to deal with overconsumption and the vast depletion of resources and climate problems it creates.
They both believe that the impact of a human society on its environment is the direct result of its population size, and through their dialogue they break down the complex social problems that are wrapped up in this idea and attempts to overcome it, hitting firmly upon many controversial topics such as circumcision, religion, reproduction, abortion, animal rights, diet, and gun control.
Chemicals water tweet
A Tweet placed on Huffpo’s feed reads, “Just put chemicals in the water so that us men can’t reproduce. BAM problem solved.”
To that tweeter I say your suggestion is an old idea that has been proposed many times- read here.
His delusional rantings were largely responsible for one of the left's modern-day boogermen, genetically modified organisms. The horror....
The really sick thing is that taxpayers’ money supports this asshat loser “professor”.
I thought we already pondered this back a while ago...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4
Not exactly. Malthus was more or less correct for the pre-industrial world. There were repeated cycles of rapid population growth followed by contraction due to war, famine and pestilence.
The history of China being a prime example. For several thousand years, each period of a change of the heavenly mandate resulted in a decline in population by anything from 25% to 75%.
Malthus, writing at the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution, can be (or should be) forgiven for not realizing how drastically the increase in human productivity would impact the factors he analyzed.
He also did not foresee the effects of contraception becoming effective and widespread, and their increased use as people, particularly women, became more educated and wealthy. Why should he have foreseen this? In his world, the wealthy and educated still had more children than the lower classes, or at least more who survived.
Wow, didn’t know this guy was still around. Still making the same predictions too - wrong since 1970, that’s quite a track record!
I forgive him because of his position in time. But there is no excuse for the Left still following a vision that has proven itself wrong.
What's he talking to us for?
Why doesn't he go preach baby-killing where the people are having the most babies?
He’s still alive? I thought he died years ago in that Population Bomb thingy he wrote about.
Ehrlich’s not like a stopped clock, he IS a stopped clock.
Stopped sometime in 1968 & never moved forward. Just another aging grey ponytailed lefty. Renews his subscription to The Nation every year, gnaws stale granola while cursing Americans’ materialistic indifference to the need for violent revolution, while waiting to be turned into postmortal compost. A most happy man.
Soylent Green is People!
Two cannibals are eating a clown.
The first cannibal turns to the second cannibal and says, “does this taste funny?”
Thank you, thank you. I am here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
Fair enough. I quite agree.
Just get tired of people blaming Dr. Malthus for making observations and predictions that were entirely correct given the information he had available.
For people to believe otherwise, at the time, required an unrealistic faith in the ability of human reason to deal with such issues as they came up.
As it turned out, the coldly realistic Malthus was wrong, and the unrealistic optimists were proven right, in general.
So far.
Of course. Decadent cultures descend until they get to the intersection of Cannibal Street and Human Sacrifice Blvd.
Are we there yet?
Yes, as dinner...but does liberals taste like chicken?
We have 7 billion now with 1 billion in the Americas, 1 billion in Europe and Russia, 1 billion in Africa, and 4 billion in Asia.
By 2050 Africa will as a second billion and Asia a 5th billion for a 9 billion total.
By 2100 Africa will add a 3rd and 4th billion for 11 billion total.
That's where it tops out, so say the demographers.
by 2050/2100 we will have imported a billion from Africa and Asia probably, mostly Muslims.
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