Paul Ehrlich joins the Royal Society, rants on Twitter

One of his many failures in prophecy was the prediction in 1980 that by 2000 50% of all species on earth would extinct and by 2015 ALL would be extinct (presumably including Erhlich himself).
2 years to go and just, ooo , say 10 million species to go.

I thinkwe have a new word in our lexicon. ehrlich (vrb.) ‘to; froth at the mouth over a written media form , e.g. What the hell was that twitter rant about, he erliched all over the net , it was disgusting’

Typo:
“Ehrlich has no shame…”

The disasters predicted have actually happened. Billions of people have led lives that were nasty, brutish and short. When humans were lucky to make it out of the womb and the womb was lucky to make it to a second fruition, people didn’t need to follow Ehrlich. They just lived with the low consumption and low resources that Ehrlich recommends. It’s not that they did not populate like crazy – only modern societies with with a dominant middle class neglect to populate – it’s just that everybody got to die early. Our Green Betters, so in love with easeful death, look away from this Great Contradiction: poverty is the populator.
Of course, Ehrlich and our Green Betters have emotional reasons to reject mass prosperity. People who can be grateful for prosperity will want it for others. Self-loathers are convinced that there is no point in prosperity because it has not served to gratify or fulfil them to the extent they wish to be gratified and fulfilled (which is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with hen’s teeth).
Here’s an idea: Use Earth Hour to cultivate gratitude!
When the lights go down, contemplate the marvel of rooms and buildings and streets flooded with light at the flick of a switch. Contemplate the choices given to you by an era of abundant, controlled light and energy. Without noise or odour or fumes or hazard of fire. Available instantly through pressure applied by a fingertip.
Make it a private contemplation rather than an argument. For you can do little for those who cannot love the things they are unwilling to do without – beyond one hour of fashion-dictated deprivation. Use Earth Hour to cleanse your own little space of that great infection of our times: Global Ingratitude.

Jimbo, the Royal Society’s new motto is “screw you, peasants”.

John M says:
February 10, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Record snow in Portland, ME?
Whew, good thing.
Why, just last year…
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the good old BDN.
great for starting fires, liberal rags burn so well 🙂
glad I stopped paying for them years ago,

Let’s not be down on Royal Societies in general, the one here in NZ (of which I am a member) has very nice hard-working scientists and not a mad tweeter among them that I am aware of.

Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb opened with an anecdote of Ehrlich visiting India. He is aghast at the swarming poor, including so many children.
This is the hidden racism and classism of us liberals.
In Ehrlich’s view, and the view shared by many of us elitist intellectual white people, is that these countries with growing populatons of darker-skinned poor people need to be managed before they wreck evreything for those of us who are deserving.
This line of thinking has had a very big impact upon us educated Westerners. We have no problem with The U.S. and a few other Western, white countries jumping into the business of most every other coultry on the planet and pushing population control, tied as a necessary condition to international development assistance, such as intl development loans.
Here is the pattern of United Nations Population Fund, and Planned Parenthood International: jump in and advise a nation that economic prosperity requires nation-wide population control, then develop demography infrastructure, then tie economic aid to the country hitting population goals.
Once the country buys into this idealogy, they are hooked. They are part of the international society, and have over-ruled their local culture and sovereignty.
Now, many of these countries are seeing two unintended consequences. The first is a population deficit, where there are or will soon be too few working-age adults to support the aging population born before Ehrlich and his fellow meddlers (Hilary Clinton, etc.). Those born before this major population control push are in their golden years. The second is that in some cultures, the combination of male and female status/roles plus significant limits on naturally desired family size has led to sex-selective abortion and infanticide. A horrible unintended consequence. Yet we cannot see this as emerging from the internationally introduced population control efforts.
You can look back in the birth ratios of these countries and see clearly that, while these countries may have had quite clear entrenched gender roles, the birth ratio emerges only after we white, educated, liberal Westerners show up and start meddling.
This first began possibly in Japan, in the post-WWII occupation. MacArthur appointed William Draper to develop a census / develop nation-wide demography in Japan; our goal to have them control their population was part of that reconstruction.
Draper was a prominent Ehrlich-style population control advocate:
“I wear several hats: I am Honorary Chairman of the Population Crisis Committee here in Washington; I’m on the Governing Body of the International Planned Parenthood Federation; and am Honorary Vice-Chairman of the Planned Parenthood movement in this country; also by President Nixon’s appointment. I represent the United States each two years, or whenever meetings are held, of the United Nations Population Commission. Our last meeting was in November 1971 in Geneva, the first two weeks of November. In general, my work with the Population Crisis Committee, means dealing with our own Government, and other governments, and with private and international organizations interested and involved in the population problem. I travel a great deal.” -Draper, 1972.
Also in Japan at the time, at MacArthur’s request, was a young statistician trained under Shewhart, named Deming. Yes, the quality guru. Go google “MacArthur” and “Deming.”
Deming knew statistical sampling first to achieve quality control for Bell Labs as the telephone network was built, with far-flung and buried components that are difficult to replace when failure occurs, then in agricultural investigations. This smapling knowledge brought up Deming’s name when MacArthur wanted a statistician to help rebuild Japan in the image acceptable to us.
i have not yet located Deming’s views on that role. However, it is known that Deming drifted from his designated role as demographer (you cannot manage what you cannot count) to business developer, obviously the more fruitful path for post-WWII Japan to have followed. This quirk of fate may leadingly be responsible for Japan’s astounding post-WWII success.
We have succeeded in getting Japan, and many countries since, to follow our Western ideal of not having so many children. Japan has had very high abortion rates: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-japan.html
-Note at that link that records begin just post-WWI, and abortion rates spring upwards from that point.
Many other nations follow this pattern, witrh those organizations mentioned in the Draper quote showing up in some country, then demography getting established, then family size dropping, abortion rates rising, and often sex-selective abortion and infanticide appearing as unintended consequences.
This includes China, where International Planned Parenthood Federation was on the ground as China developed their late-1970s one-child policy, and the China Planned Parenthood Federation was formally established in the early 1980s.
Here is a good link: http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC050.HTM
“One highly sensitive NSC document entitled “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests” was written in 1974 and was only declassified in late 1990. This document served as the foundation for our country’s anti-natalist population philosophy.
The document states that “Commitment to population stabilization will only take place when leaders of less-developed countries (LDCs) clearly see the negative impact of unrestricted population growth and believe it is possible to deal with this question through governmental action.”
Much of this information is explored and published by Christian pro-life advocates who have unraveled this relatively unrecognized aspect of recent history. A great portion of WUWT readers likely are not devout Bible-believing Christians, and so can dismiss this argument that Ehrlich and his ilk led to China’s one-child policy and its gruesome sex-selective abortion emphasis.
But the truth is out there. Many of us educated people choose not to see this Western meddling imperialism, and we are happy to blame sex-selctive abortion and infanticide on those foreign cultures.
But the evidence is there. And there are people around who remember the old days, before the international poulation control efforts got rolling. As with abolition, it is devout Christians on the sharp end of this controversy. I point this out mainly to disarm critics who might be hesitant to explore this topic, when a fair portion of historical and factual information is from steeply Christian individuals and organizations, rather than from being exposed from some PhD’s dissertation.
This juxtaposition is uncomfortable for many of us educated, modern believers in “women’s rights,” and believers in the pro-choice point of view, and it can be difficult for some of us to hear that the “good guys” might actually be the “bad guys,” and that the religious-zealot “bad guys” might actually be the “good guys.”
I find it surprising that anyone listens to Ehrlich, but the overpopulation scam is still in full play, even as the global warming scam starts to unravel.

With all his failures, you’d think Ehrlich would pause and reflect a bit on his beliefs. I’m trying to work out why he listens to himself.