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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I recognized it as BS from the start.
We’re in the midst of 5 going on 6 agricultural revolutions on such a massive scale that it will be possible to feed and earth population 100 -1000 times the size of the current population.
The downside is that the agricultural revolutions are happening in the developed world but not so much in the third world where population is expanding faster than their abilities to feed themselves.
So unless some major interventions occur there are going to be a lot more migrations that will disrupt and western civilization
And the same kind of idiots are still screaming that the sky is falling and all the rest of us must alter the way we live to conform to their idiocy. You’d think people would wise up.
How about the movie “Soylent Green”?
In the 70’s,kids in class learned THE BOAT GAME...6 people in a boat,only room for 3...who gets killed...Kids learned not everyone deserves to live
Paul Ehrlich was completely wrong yet his narrative infested pop culture for a decade. When nothing he predicted happened they just replaced him with Gore and not a word said about what an idiot Paul Ehrlich was.
Seemed fascinating at the time but where are all the starving and dead people?
The places that have people facing starvation like Venezuela, have nothing to do with over-population.
It has to do with too much socialism and communism.
Ehrlich's false predictions are what convinced me that this global cooling, then global warming, then climate change, are all a bunch of Leftie BS.
Ehrlich is like Gore. All talk and bluster but no results to back them up. Snake oil salesmen all.
You can put the entire Earth’s population in the space of Texas.
Opps, forgot Islamists....
Another one was ‘The Late Great Planet Earth’........................
Please don’t..................
My dad did that calculation when the book came out but used Kansas.
This is NOT imagration nor refugees seeking asylum. These are specifically 'organized', "led" and "Prepped" re-distribution of third world populations into western countries...all part of the Globalist Agenda.
Doom and gloom is a $$$ winning $$$ formula.
I am working on a theory that toxic lawn grass is making white men strile ..and then they die!
One of the most difficult things for a human to do is predict the future because our worldview is shaped by the technology of today.
Technology, not government intervention, will make the problems of today the products/services of tomorrow. That is a fact. The explosion of new technology grows at an ever increasing rate in every field - materials, energy, agriculture, health, computers, etc etc.
The future is bright if we allow freedom and capitalism to prevail.
Malthus came out with that idea early in the 19th century; but mankind has long since passed his calculations about population.
Israeli scientists have figured that earth could support 40-50 billion people if the land and sea were used correctly.
Heck...Algore got rich on this scam.
Liberals abandoned the book once they realized the population problem was mostly limited to non-white cultures.
>> You can put the entire Earth’s population in the space of Texas <<
Yep, but to paraphrase the late Yogi Berra,
The place would then be so popular that nobody would want to got there anymore.
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