Posted on 04/02/2018 7:21:41 AM PDT by C19fan
As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to the average person. That was about to change. In May, Ehrlich released a quickly written, cheaply bound paperback, The Population Bomb. Initially it was ignored. But over time Ehrlich’s tract would sell millions of copies and turn its author into a celebrity. It would become one of the most influential books of the 20th century—and one of the most heatedly attacked.
The first sentence set the tone: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” And humanity had lost. In the 1970s, the book promised, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” No matter what people do, “nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: 06/07/1977...Dr. Paul Ehrlich -Newest Cover Popular Realit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQxLJCjH58s
There is enough food and land to sustain every person worldwide......the problem is not overpopulation..the problem is “Leaders” of countries who control the distribution of food, land and resources.
God said to multiply on the earth and He has provided for all.....it’s man that fails.
This.
When did Ehrlich assume room temperature? I thought he was still alive. Lib fools who preach doom and gloom seem to live a long time.
The man has never been right about anything in his life. And yet major universities still shell out five-figure honoraria to have him come and speak.
Virtue Signaling Uber Alles.
Ehrlich not dead yet. Turns 86 in May.
That made a big impression on me, but not the way they wanted.
I encountered the Life Boat in 8th grade (mid 70s). Up until that year I had always had history classes as part of my curriculum. It was my favorite class (I eventually got a BA in history). But in 8th grade, they replaced History with "Social Studies". And they focused on a whole bunch of stuff which seemed very questionable to me. The Life Boat being a memorable piece of that. I was a fairly clueless kid in a lot of ways, but that lesson just told me that were trying to tell us some people deserved to die. They didn't say "useless eater" but that was the idea that they wanted us to absorb. I've despised that side of the political spectrum ever since.
They also tried to convince me that the Industrial Revolution was bad because factory owners offered jobs to people. And sometimes people took those jobs and ended up not liking them. For the teacher this was "exploiting the worker". For me it was, "If that's the best job you can find, why are you complaining?"
Yes, as a philosopher said long ago,
"It is hard to make predictions, especially about the future."
(Quoth Yogi Berra, or Mark Twain, or Samuel Goldwyn, or Niels Bohr, or Aristotle, or whoever -- just pick whichever source you might prefer.)
Your population cannot explode over what is sustainable. No one can answer how you can have a population of 15 billion that can only feed 7 billion, yet the left keeps going with that meme.
And the earth is gonna burn up.
And the earth is gonna freeze.
And all the fish in the ocean are gonna die.
And we are gonna run out of oil in 10 years.
And robots are gonna take over everything.
WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!
Norman Borlaug, the unassuming Protestant agriculture researcher who saw it as his mission to feed the world. And even Slate called him the man who fed a billion people, because his dwarf grain varieties tripled food yield.
But no one will mention his faith as the reason he spent a lifetime trying to ensure we could feed everyone, much less proving environmentalist doom and gloom wrong.
The only way I survived the grwat starvation of the 1980s was by eating remaindered copies of The Population Bomb.
Liberals love illegal immigrants, claiming they’ll do the job American’s won’t. No, American’s will do it at a reasonable rate, the illegals will do it for less.
...but then the liberals never talk about how illegals are being exploited. I recall stories about farmers in CA that will go out of business if PDJT deports them, they’d have to pay more. Yet, liberals make the argument that $15/hr at a fast food place shouldn’t have ANY impact on the business, they owners are just greedy. So which is it?
They talk out of both sides of their mouth and really don’t care about either, it’s just about pandering the votes to get power.
He was wrong, but m*slim areas of the planet are having rapid population growth and are prone to violence. Not a good thing for the future of the planet.
That's already been dramatically undermined by current population trends. The birthrate is falling everywhere, including in sub-Saharan Africa. Although Africa's population is on track to keep expanding, this expansion looks big mainly in comparison with Europe, which is in the throes of demographic collapse from which it is not likely to recover --- ever.
Although Sub-Saharan Africa's fertility rate is high now, it's dropping as you can see from the World Bank chart, below. You can have fun extending the African lines down, if you want: this chart makes it look like they'd Ethiopia and Congo's lines will intersect Iran's in my lifetime, and Iran's decline has been precipitous:
Trends indicate that sub-Saharan Africa will decline to merely replacement rate by 2100. By that time, in Europe is still in existence as Europe (inhabited by indigenous Europeans) is anybody's guess.
I don't think it's wise to impose Europe's demographic geno-suicide on everybody. Here's an interesting recent article on how fertility has been declining across the globe.
As I often say, “Liberals just say stuff”.
It doesn’t have to be logical, consistent or true. If it sounds good and pushes their agenda of control, then they think they are fine. They will say whatever seems good at the time. It will be different tomorrow, but what does it matter?
It takes an atheist/communist like Stalin to crush a breadbasket (like Ukraine) into genocidal famine. It take a free Christian like Borlaug to open the door for plenty worldwide.
Paul Ehrlich, L. Ron Hubbard, Al Gore, Jim Jones, David Koresh, that guy and the mother-ship, Rio Summitt, Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx, all such brilliant minds with which to plan the future.
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