One thing's for sure: time is running out for Ehrlich.
Ehrlich and his colleagues have been thinking the same things for over 50 years. And so far they have thought wrong.
This guy is an idiot, a highly educated idiot but an idiot all the same. I remember well his fearmongering well, and Johnny Carson helping to promote it on his show. Interesting that despite Ehrlich’s doom and gloom and gloom about mass starvation and death because dear Gaia just couldn’t support even the number of souls when he he wrote his marvel of bullshit, here we are with even higher global population who have been fed and the only reason people do go hungry and starve is because of local and global corruption.
I remember reading "The Population Bomb" as a child in the early 1970s. My mother was always the alarmist type and so had plenty of "gloom and doom" books on the shelves. Depressed the hell out of me though as I was naive enough back then to take it all serously.
When an individual predicts the calamitous end of society they are labeled a crackpot.
When an entire religion does it, it’s called faith and prophesy.
Paul Erlich isn’t a scientist, at least not any longer. He has transitioned to a religious fanatic.
What he called the population explosion, and what is today called climate change is a pseudo-science. It’s based on a limited understanding of the way the world works, extrapolated far out of sample. That it has been completely refuted by subsequent history is of no consequence to true believers, because they are mystics.
They insulate themselves from reality with a veneer of “common sense.” For example, common sense tells you that there’s the earth has a limited ability to sustain life. No, the earth doesn’t have a limited. We human beings change the earth. We have no idea how powerful we will become. We can irrigate deserts and farm the oceans. We may one day be able to tap into the energy within the earth and in the Sun. As far as we have come since the start of the industrial revolution about two hundred years ago, we can go as far in the next several hundred years.
Ehrlich is 90 years old.
You can’t teach an old dog news tricks.
They are bringing it out now because THEY WANT TO DEPOPULATE the planet.
There are actually nutballs who WANT it to happen.
60 Minutes needs to focus on the United States first... we can assist with the solution IF illegals don’t sink us first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ
Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.
“It means you look out your window, and three quarters of what you think ought to be there is no longer there. That’s what mass extinction looks like.”
I look at my window and there aren’t any birds cause it’s mid-winter. They’re smarter than this idiot. They like global warming.
“In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines-hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death”
I remember teachers trying to scare the hell out of us with the “Coming Ice Age.” But then came acid rain and the OZONE hole from our hair spray in the 80s.
Paul is a biologist! He can tell the difference between a man and a woman. Maybe.
One thing's for sure: time is running out for Ehrlich.