[PJ-Comix]

James Hansen is taking up the mantle of Paul Ehrlich. And he is also destined to be tossed down the MSM memory hole sometime in the future.

[John Jorsett]

Well, there are inconvenient truths and really inconvenient truths ...

[allmost]

Human beings are very efficient problem solvers. The leftist view that we are merely cattle leads them to view us as a scourge when numbers seem to justify their preconceived contempt. Advances continually allow for a larger and healthier human population as roadblocks are overcome. These realities don’t fit into a ‘human beings are cattle’ mindset.

[HerrBlucher]

So what has Paul Ehrlich, whom the media has tossed down the memory hole, been doing recently? Why global warming alarmism of course.

LOL! Once an alarmist always an alarmist I guess.

[Coffee200am]

The obligatory Soylent Green picture

[gorush]

I went to one of his speeches at the ag barn at the UW Madison campus back in 1968 or ‘69 when I was young and stupid and playing for the other team...how fitting, in retrospect, the location was.

[Luigi Vasellini]

global warming bump

[WarEagle]

I had to read this stupid thing for a "contemporary American history" course in 1970. How stupid of the prof to include this book in the syllabus - it had nothing to do with history or even political thought.

I was young and stupid at that time, but had learned enough as a YAF to understand what a load of BS it was.

He also wrote a novel in which the Shah of Iran lead a nuclear strike on Saudi Arabia and rendered the Arabian peninsula oil fields inoperable. This man is a yutz all the way round.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

So the Population Bomb bombed?

[IronJack]

These are the same people who predicted the worldwide AIDS epidemic (status: recently disproved); the laughability of a communist bloodbath in post-America Vietnam (status: 10 million dead); universal deforestation in the Amazon basin (status: apparently unrealized as of yet because whining about "the rain forests" goes on); and now, global warming.

Given that track record, how much stock would any sane person put in the doomsday scenarios painted by Al Gore and the enviroloons?

[Fishtalk]

I am just so happy to have come upon this thread.

True story, all my heart....

...I was a sweet young liberal lass once.

I believed Paul Ehrlich. I only had one child.

I have regretted that decision every second of every damn day for about twenty years.

I can’t go back. I am bitter. Back then I thought “scientists” didn’t lie, especially those who passed muster to get into the newspaper and all, gasp.

I used to tell everyone...”I am only reproducing myself” and I felt so noble.

Yes, I have a lovely daughter and a grandchild I adore.

I sometimes sit and dream what it would be like to have more than one child; what it must be like to be able to call one child and, I dunno, talk about the other. What it would be like to have a house full of my children and their children.

I’m bitter, damn I’m bitter.

But know this, I will NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING I READ IN A NEWSPAPER OR ON “60 MINUTES” AGAIN.

It’s not fooling around. These people ruin lives. I have a mission in life and it’s to rail against lying liberals. They are not just a bunch of nuts, they can alter, even destroy lives.

[Will88]

Read the dude’s book, a paperback just like the one in the upper right corner. Also read Rachel Carson. These are the two that I believe turned Algore into the hysterical alarmist he is now. He’s talked of what a ‘profound’ effect “Silent Spring” had on him.

Out of the two, all I agreed with was it wouldn’t be bad if US population growth (and world growth) leveled off at a modest growth pace. But even that has been tossed aside by immigration policy.

There should be a retrospective on these two and other alarmists from the sixties and seventies to review what they got right, and what they got wrong. Almost nothing to put into the first category.

[ViLaLuz]

The book and the whole theory helped usher in abortion, populations dying out with undesireables filling the void.

[ChessExpert]

Q In The Population Bomb, you describe a rather stark future for the planet – with too many people, dwindling resources, massive starvation, and environmental calamity. You wrote that hundreds of millions might die from starvation by the mid-1970s. Looking back on that prediction and others, how to you think the book holds up after 40 years?

A Frankly, the book was too optimistic. ...

Amazing. Did I miss the hundreds of millions who allegedly starved to death by the mid 1970s? The book was published in 1968. So hundreds of millions should have starved in about seven years, perhaps averaging about a hundred million a year. It didn’t happen! How can he say he was too optimistic and keep a straight face? There really is no need for anyone to read on.