Posted on 08/09/2002 3:41:38 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..." (p.xi.)
"A minimum of ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century" (p.3)
"Our position requires that we take immediate action at home and promote effective action worldwide. We must have population control at home, hopefully through changes in our value system, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail." (pp.xi-xii)
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually he dies -- often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance of survival." (p.152)
Ehrlich and his ilk are nothing more than Nazi scum. These are the people who think that humanity is a parasite, a disease, a cancer to be cut out. Environmentalism is a sick delusion and a form of totalitarianism.
In fairmess, he did (finally, years later) pay off the wager. Look for his picture in the dictionary next to the definition of 'loser'.
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually he dies -- often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance of survival." (p.152)
Well, Mr. Ehrlich, what's it going to be? Are there too many people and we need to kill them all off, or are there too FEW because they're starving to death?? Seems like a non-problem to me.
Someone needs to begin a drive in that state to change the name of these parks. They need to know that because of the unfounded predictions in that book, millions of people have died from malaria because of the ban on DDT. Rachel Carson has a worse record at killing people than Adolf himself.
Too bad it doesn't happen enough and 98% of mainstream report still reports the doom and gloom of global warmers are fact. It is should be embarrassing how bias and uninformed the reporting is.
As the economic collapse due to environmental regulations continues there will be less money available to fund environmentalists. Every time you meet someone recently put out of work, point out that it is environmental regulations that cost them their job. They might not get the connection right away, but since they are out of work, they will have time to listen to your explanation and perhaps a light will go on for them.
I say, break out the DDT. If any wacktovists show up to protest, we can use the for golf practice ala Bruce Willis in Armaggedon.
It hasn't happened yet. Once they have been thoroughly proven wrong, usually after a ton of regualtions have been passed and class action lawsuits won, they move on to their next looney theory and the cycle starts all over again. There is a sucker born every minute with no end in sight.
Julian Simon
... Julian Simon. 1932 - 1998.
Environmental scams:
That's true, it hasn't happened. It might not happen, either, but it could. Was thinking of the forest fires in the West in those very forests that some environmentalists are trying to preserve as pristine, and how environmentalists might increasingly not be considered as visionary by others, even though they themselves think they are.
Certainly deserves highlighting and repeating. ;^)
I have had several conversations with him since and even though he knows he can't convince the self-anointed, he continues to publish and to speak publically in that same sane, rational way.
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