Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t tony_g – “The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
The full interview is available here.
Serial doomsday prophet Paul Ehrlich admits he got it wrong on mass starvation, the green revolution (agricultural) boosted yields and fed the world. But this hasn’t discouraged Ehrlich from making more predictions of mass doom – he claims his 1968 climate catastrophe predictions are still on track.
What can I say – I think it is nice for old people to have a hobby, keeps them active.
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A good article here, about Paul Ehrlich’s failed predictions of doom, versus reality.
From January 1, 2023.
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Raymond J. de Souza: A New Year and a possible new population fear
As global population growth continues to slow, the fear of overpopulation may be replaced by one of too few people
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/a-new-year-and-a-possible-new-population-fear
“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
I predict Paul Ehrlich will pass on and we won’t have him to kick around any more
I didn’t realize Ehrlich was this bad..
WSJ
Mr. Ehrlich was more than a sore loser. In 1995, he told this paper: “If Simon disappeared from the face of the Earth, that would be great for humanity.” (Simon would die in 1998.) This comment wasn’t out of character. “The Bet” is filled chockablock with Mr. Ehrlich’s outbursts—calling those who disagree with him “idiots,” “fools,” “morons,” “clowns” and worse. His righteous zeal is matched by both his viciousness in disagreement and his utter imperviousness to contrary evidence. For example, he has criticized the scientists behind the historic Green Revolution in agriculture—men like Norman Borlaug, who fed poor people the world over through the creation of scientific farming—as “narrow-minded colleagues who are proposing idiotic panaceas to solve the food problem.”
It sounds like M. Mann, so we need to dust off the personality studies to compare them.
Does Earl Paulich still believe that the world’s population is increasing exponentially?
Shellenberger posted a pretty good takedown of Ehrlich
The murdering globalist totalitarians are creating chaos in our energy and medical sectors with their popular delusions, and that is fulfilling Ehrlich’s prophesies by entirely different ways – the Big Cull of the elderly and poor will happen in Europe this Winter, due to unworkable woke energy policies and resulting energy shortages, and deliberate mismanagement of the Covid-19 scam with destructive lockdowns and toxic “vaccines”. It was never about the Climate or about Covid – it was always about destruction, carnage and CONTROL.
He would make a good drug lord with shipments north of 10 million fentanyl pills per day and a loose border security system to catch token amounts.
Did the resurrect Ehrlich to make Greta and Algore seem intelligent?
BabylonBee: 60 Minutes Interviews Population Control Expert Thanos
Thankfully, he’s not in charge of the NK nuclear arsenal.
If ANY of his “doom’s day” prophesies are anywhere close to coming true, it’s NOT because of population or the climate but only because of political policies based on preventing his bogus theories from coming true. (And those will only effect the West, not the planet.)
Paul Ehrlich is remarkable in that he sums up, in a single person, all that is wrong with flawed and politically dystopian modern science.
In a complex system you can’t extrapolate anything.
Some things never change.