Posted on 10/08/2009 3:59:31 PM PDT by TheVitaminPress
Oslo, Norway- An American, Paul Erlich of The Stanford Butterfly Collector’s Club, was awarded the 2009 Nobel prize for his book positing the inevitability of a “population bomb” in his book of the same name. Written in 1968 the epic scientific tome portends of a future in which population growth will far exceed the planets capacity to provide for resources enough to sustain humanity. The book further predicted that the resultant rampant famine and boredom would lead to the starvation of trillions of people during the 1970’s and the end of all humanity no later than the spring of 1985.
Despite the failure of Erlich’s predictions to materialize and history’s verdict that his theories were the estimations of a moron
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You can see why the human race won’t survive when these guys get any credit for intellect.
So what did he win the Nobel Prize for, fiction?
The would be the Nobel Prize for Thickheadedness?
Satire is a literary art form in which the story is (1) false, (2) close to truth, and (3) funny. This one is false.
You know what’s sad... the world is so messed up I didn’t even recognize this as satire at first.
Obviously, this should have a sarcasm tag on it...
Well, that explains Krugman winning one for economics and Arafat winning one for peace.
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