Posted on 01/02/2023 11:46:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Earth is headed for a sixth extinction, warned biologist Paul Ehrlich on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. And since Ehrlich has predicted about 20 extinctions over the past 60 years, he’s a leading expert on the issue.
Why didn’t “60 Minutes” have the decency to find a fresh-faced, yet-to-be-discredited neo-Malthusian to hyperventilate about the end of the world? Why didn’t producers invite a single guest to push back against theories that have been reliably debunked by reality? Because the media is staffed by environmental pessimists and doomsayers who need to believe the world is in constant peril due to the excesses of capitalism. And Ehrlich is perhaps our greatest alarmist.
His 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” is among the most destructive of the 20th century. The long screed not only made Ehrlich a celebrity, but gave end-of-day alarmists a patina of scientific legitimacy, popularized alarmism as a political tool, and normalized authoritarian and anti-humanist policies as a cure. Ehrlich’s progeny are other media-favored hysterics by other antihumanists, such as Al Gore or Eric Holthaus or Greta Thunberg, who skipped learning history and science because she also believes we are on the precipice of “mass extinction.” And none of this is to mention the thousands of other Little Ehrlichs nudging you to eat insects, gluing themselves to roads, and demanding you surrender the most basic conveniences and necessities of modernity.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” the opening line of “The Population Bomb” reads. “In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now,” Ehrlich wrote...
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We should be so lucky as to be in a position to exhume this profoundly destructive POS in the literal sense.
How much time does the planet have left, eight years? I’d better hurry up and finish building that space ship in my backyard that will take me out of here. I just need a few more parts.
/sarc
I remember that. It was something.
Just another Stanford crazy. The Tree rules
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over”
Yes but all of humanity must move to the Ukraine where they now have MORE than enough money to feed the world.
That is, as long as we eat money.
Is 60 minutes still a thing?
This guy has been around since the 60s-70s. I don’t think he’s made one prediction that’s panned out.
Ehrlich was an expert in insect (butterfly) population dynamics. He applied his knowledge to human population dynamics. One problem - humans aren’t insects!
The globalists have absolute control of the food supply chain. I believe the next big artificial crisis to follow COVID will be a worldwide food "shortage" followed by Digital Currency
The globalists have absolute control of the food supply chain. I believe the next big artificial crisis to follow COVID will be a worldwide food "shortage" followed by Digital Currency
I saw Ehrlich when he made a trip to Occidental College in the fall of 1969. He called on the middle class to birth-control itself out of existence and urged all of us young men to get a vasectomy. Many of my fellow students sat in rapt attention, but he struck me as a charlatan.
Same with Algore.
Did he also say that oil deposits would dry up by 1990, or was that someone else?
I believe we have more oil now than we did back when that prediction was made.
These people are never held to account for their gross errors.
The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between business professor Julian L. Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon measure of resource scarcity over the decade leading up to 1990. The widely-followed contest originated in the pages of Social Science Quarterly, where Simon challenged Ehrlich to put his money where his mouth was. In response to Ehrlich's published claim that "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000" Simon offered to take that bet, or, more realistically, "to stake US$10,000 ... on my belief that the cost of non-government-controlled raw materials (including grain and oil) will not rise in the long run."
Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose any raw material he wanted and a date more than a year away, and he would wager on the inflation-adjusted prices decreasing as opposed to increasing. Ehrlich chose copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten. The bet was formalized on September 29, 1980, with September 29, 1990, as the payoff date. Ehrlich lost the bet, as all five commodities that were bet on declined in price from 1980 through 1990, the wager period.
Funny they never want to talk about Julian Simon and how he proved Erlich wrong on everything.
L
What’s a 60 minutes?
One minute and seven seconds.
L
On a more positive note, there are an amazing number of really hot women hiding under 30-40 lbs of excess adipose tissue.
I, for one, am eagerly looking forward to potential increased dating opportunities that may be just over the horizon.
What about all the new discoveries of critters people thought were long extinct?
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