Closing in on 50 years of being wrong - Paul Ehrlich says again environmental collapse is coming

Next Big Future ^ | June 25, 2015 | Brian Wang

[jmcenanly]

Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

There have been papers which show that species and area relationships always overestimate extinctions.

Ehrlich became well known for his controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb, which asserted that the world's human population would soon increase to the point where mass starvation ensued Among the measures he suggested in that book was population control, to be used in his opinion if voluntary methods were to fail.

[jmcenanly]

I think that Erlich and company count on the general public forgetting their previous predictions when making announcements of this sort. With the Internet, the only thing that keeps them from being laughed into obscurity is the general unwillingness to look things up.

[beethovenfan]

Then why doesn’t Erlich do his duty and off himself?

[from occupied ga]

Erlich has consistently beaten the odds. He has never been right about anything, but the left still worships him because he spouts their catechism as a good priest of statism should.

[jospehm20]

Yes, he has compiled a very impressive record of being wrong.

[2001convSVT]

Paul Ehrlich has perpetrated a great fraud and if he had any self-respect he would give back all the money he stole and publicly apologize.

[PATRIOT1876]

Ehrlich seems to hate humanity with a fiery passion.

“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”

“The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now”
I wonder if this was more wishful thinking on his part rather than a prediction...

[Da Coyote]

Like that dolt has ever been correct.

Imagine a white Dorkbama.

Yeah, Erlich is THAT stupid.

[PATRIOT1876]

*He has never been right about anything, but the left still worships him because he spouts their catechism as a good priest of statism should. *

He's like Al Gore.

He's never been right, even accidentally!

[edpc]

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Climate change—or Global Warming—is a FAD, the sillyness of our age—like the LSD in Halloween Candyin the 1960s, and the Commie under every bed in the 1950s—Comedians will make jokes about it in the 2020s. It has no legs to stand on. World events will bury it as we inch towards WW III.

[ExCTCitizen]

Paul Erlich, please STFU and go OFF yourself... you are wrong...as liberals are...

[boop]

"Erlich has consistently beaten the odds."

My first question, is just how OLD is this guy?

Answer: 83.

So my second question is, how do you live THAT long, and see everything you wrote turning out WRONG, yet you still cling to failed and frankly idiotic notions?

Third question: At what point do liberals say: "Hey this guy is a kook and a fraud. No point in listening to him any more."

Answer, (sadly): Never.

Hell, liberals still worship Rachel Carson.