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In 1968, radical Stanford professor Ehrlich wrote the Population Bomb, a book that predicted worldwide famine due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. None of his predictions ever came true.

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1 posted on 01/02/2023 3:12:13 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
How many people even know that Paul Erlich is an entomologist?
When he talks about human populations he has no more credibility than your average truck driver.
2 posted on 01/02/2023 3:18:32 PM PST by Varda
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To: Alas Babylon!

I took an easy course in college (early 1970s) called population—based on the “overpopulation” theme of that day.

It was hilariously stupid and wrong then—and now.

My joke—if two people live under socialism the country is overpopulated!


3 posted on 01/02/2023 3:22:14 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Ehrlich may be referring to the WEF and their Great Reset.


5 posted on 01/02/2023 3:27:41 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Musk is not stupid [yet...].


6 posted on 01/02/2023 3:28:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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But he’s so convincing for anyone that has no brain; Greta are listening?


7 posted on 01/02/2023 3:29:21 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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Ehrlich predictions ...

“On the first Earth Day in 1970, he warned that “in ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”

In a 1971 speech, he predicted that: “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.” “If I were a gambler,” Professor Ehrlich concluded before boarding an airplane, “ I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”


9 posted on 01/02/2023 3:43:50 PM PST by plain talk
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I didn’t see the ‘60 Minutes’ segment, but I have to almost laugh at the absurdity of their featuring Ehrlich, a guy who’s been spectacularly wrong in his prognostications for 50 years. They may as well have Kyrie Irving on to talk about his flat-earth theories.


11 posted on 01/02/2023 3:45:35 PM PST by irishjuggler
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He was a God to his followers in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s to the dems in Congress,universities and the CIA with his mantras of too many people alive on Mother Earth.


12 posted on 01/02/2023 3:45:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave ((Truth is hate speech to those, who hate the truth!) (clintonh8r))
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Zinn. Chomsky. Ehrlich.

Evil clowns. Killer clowns.


13 posted on 01/02/2023 3:48:14 PM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Alas Babylon!

Of Course in German his name means “honest”.


15 posted on 01/02/2023 3:50:16 PM PST by JeanLM
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Ehrlich...

Holmes...

Bankman-Fried....

Let’s just call it “Stanfraud”


16 posted on 01/02/2023 3:56:09 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Malthus. Wrong then, still wrong.


18 posted on 01/02/2023 4:04:40 PM PST by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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To: Alas Babylon!

The only thing that can create a world-wide famine today, save a catastrophic, world-impacting natural event, is government.


22 posted on 01/02/2023 4:18:24 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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Musk responded to Epstein. “Nothing he says should be given the slightest credibility.”

And by the Associative Law, neither should CBS/Pelley.


23 posted on 01/02/2023 4:39:21 PM PST by No Party Affiliation
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Ehrlich is a waste of perfectly good oxygen.


24 posted on 01/02/2023 4:41:40 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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Since the 1960’s the population has doubled but food production has tripled.

There are now about 7 new agricultural revolutions which will make it possible to feed population 10-100 time the size of current world populations.


29 posted on 01/03/2023 6:25:17 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Indeed, see thread The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation ‘The Population Bomb’ made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world
30 posted on 01/03/2023 6:35:22 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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