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Posted on 06/02/2015 7:33:02 AM PDT by PROCON
That’s the question the New York Times asks in its latest “Retro Report,” a series that looks back and updates prominent stories from the past. “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion” is fairly devastating to the leading figure of that famous apocalypse, Paul Ehrlich, author of the monster best-selling book The Population Bomb:
No one was more influential — or more terrifying, some would say — than Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist. His 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” sold in the millions with a jeremiad that humankind stood on the brink of apocalypse because there were simply too many of us. Dr. Ehrlich’s opening statement was the verbal equivalent of a punch to the gut: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” He later went on to forecast that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s, that 65 million of them would be Americans, that crowded India was essentially doomed, that odds were fair “England will not exist in the year 2000.” Dr. Ehrlich was so sure of himself that he warned in 1970 that “sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come.” By “the end,” he meant “an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”
As you may have noticed, England is still with us. So is India. Hundreds of millions did not die of starvation in the ’70s. Humanity has managed to hang on, even though the planet’s population now exceeds seven billion, double what it was when “The Population Bomb” became a best-seller and its author a frequent guest of Johnny Carson’s on “The Tonight Show.” . . After the passage of 47 years, Dr. Ehrlich offers little in the way of a mea culpa.
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The WORLD was supposed to come to an END a few years ago according to another hideously flawed prophet,..named Harold Camping....hwo predcited the WORLD would END..in May 21, 2011..and when that prophecy failed. October 21, 2011.
they come and ..go
whatever happened to that SIlent Spring deal?..../s
Well, Beijing will not be underwater in 2021 because Obama was elected and stopped the rise of the oceans just like he promised!
Interestingly, the really rich Islamic countries in the Middle East, Malaysia and even Indonesia is experiencing one thing that has kind of surprised Muslim cultural scholars: the population growth is slowing down. Indeed, the more affluent the population is, the less likely the population will have an explosion of child bearing.
The Muzzies are more than happy to move in and replenish the population....
But their co-author, colleague and fellow traveller, John P. Holdren, has been Obama's science and technology adviser since day 1.
Population Bomb
Mexico snickers
Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution doubling and tripling food yield of major crops like rice and corn, the industrialization of agriculture with fertilizer and irrigation in many parts of the world, and other steps that dramatically increased yield.
That’s why we have 2 billion more people since 1990 but 200 million FEWER starving, in short, feeding 2.2 billion more fully and completely.
Science and industrialization brought production up faster than demand grew.
It’s hanging out with the ‘ozone hole’, soon to be joined be ‘global warming’.
By 2050, Asia will add a 5th billion and Africa a 2nd billion. By 2100 Africa will add a 3rd and 4th billion, for an 11 billion total.
Ray is correct about the falling fertility rates.
CIA Factbook Country Comparison of Fertility Rates in descending order
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