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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**Facepalm**
The “population bomb” only works in a certain model, with certain characteristics, and theoretic ingredients.
Germany today has 80 million residents. In 2060, unless something happens to prevent it....it will be down to 64 million residents. Families are mostly having child only, and a quarter of population isn’t interested in having any kids. All of this comes from concept that women found education....were happy with careers, and just didn’t want motherhood tied to them.
By the end of the century....if nothing occurs to change the pace...Germany will have half the population that it has today.
It was just the Liberal Boogie Man of the times.
The scare was used to justify legalizing abortions in the US.
the same thing that happened to nuclear winter.
hahaha! I still have a worn copy of “The Limits to Growth” on my bookshelf. It’s most hilarious book I’ve ever read! Did you know we’ve all already been dead for more than 20 years?
Population bomb = “thinking themselves wise, they became fools”
God said be fruitful and fill the earth.
Being 100% WRONG has not prevented Dr. Ehrlich from collecting honoraria and huge speaking fees from top-level universities.
He was right. Millions did starve to death in the '70s . . . in countries with Marxist economies.
The gap in population in the West will be filled by (Islamic) immigration.
Yes and according to the prognosticators, we're all going to die again...and real soon.
The 1960’s population bomb was slowed down by the coming ice age of the 1970’s, the ozone layer hole of the 90’s, and the global warming of the 2000’s.
Its flowing across our borders at an ever increasing rate.
And will happen to global climate change after the Left finally gains what it and every totalitarian regime in the history of mankind has always wanted.
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.
PFL
I often say this. World had too many people, practice birth control.
Too many white people in America they meant.
Malthus said the same ting in 1798.
That was wrong too.
It was a Hogan’s Hero’s DUD!
The following is a FACT and I urge all freepers to put this out there: in 2006, Al Gore appeared on Oprah and said, “Beijing will be underwater in fifteen years.” That means that the person who was awarded the Nobel Prize for pushing the Global Warming myth expects Beijing to be washed away within the next six years. Will Gore be called on his prediction in 2021?
That’s why your job got outsourced to India. Because they all died of starvation by 1985. /s
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