Posted on 03/15/2026 12:35:58 PM PDT by Borges
Paul R. Ehrlich, an eminent ecologist and population scientist whose best-selling book, “The Population Bomb,” was celebrated as a prescient warning of a coming age of food shortages and famine but later criticized by conservatives and academic rivals for what they called its sky-is-falling rhetoric, died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93.
His death, at a nursing facility in the retirement community where he lived, was caused by complications of cancer, his daughter, Lisa Marie Daniel, said.
As a young professor of biology at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Dr. Ehrlich was known for his absorbing lectures on evolution, in which he described what plants and animals faced on a planet stressed by industrial pollution and rapid population growth. He distilled those lectures into an article published in December 1967 in New Scientist magazine.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Only thing I can say is, well, without him, none of us would be saying “Soylent Green is made of people!”
This ridiculous book is the blueprint for every government money laundering scheme against the US taxpayer since it was published- from aliens to Covid to global climate change (warming) (ice age)
He wouldn’t have been so infamous if there hadn’t been “so many” people subject to his fear-mongering!
I wonder if there is any correlation to the removal of the bible from the classroom.
The irony is declining birth rates are happening all over the world and many country are way below replacement rate.
Well, here are the numbers: The world population has grown dramatically — from about 3.33 billion in 1965 to approximately 8.3 billion today in 2026, representing a nearly 2.5x increase over roughly six decades.
If it wasn’t a bomb it sure must have been quite an orgy!
Unlike middle-class whites, they neglected to read Ehrlich's book, choosing instead to have sex and make babies.
Babies which survived only because we flooded their Third World crapholes with Western medicine and food aid.
May his Memory be Eternal!
“...his daughter, Lisa Marie Daniel...”
A-HA! It was just FINE for HIM to reproduce, but the rest of us had better not, lest we harm Mudder Erf!
*Rolleyes*
Famously lost the Simon-Ehrlich bet. He was just wrong about everything.
“My family was only able to survive the Great Starvation of the 1970s by eating remaindered copies of the Population Bomb.”
LOL! Post Of The Day! :)
Same as the people who claimed God is dead.
This is every elite liberal.
"Support public schools!" (Sends kids to private schools.) "Empower single moms! Divorce is feminist!" (Stays married to their spouse, has children within wedlock.) "Choose racially diverse partners!" (Chooses partner of their own race.) "Celebrate childfree lives!" (Has a bunch of white kids.) "Use public transportation to save gas!" (Drives 650 hp Porsche to work.)
...but later criticized by conservatives and academic rivals for what they called its sky-is-falling rhetoric...
Conservatives pounce!
“The issue is never the issue.”
Here’s the “real” Paul Ehrlich—a Nobel Prize recipient and the “father of immunology”!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich
He died old old old
such a drain on society
He won’t be missed.
This clown cost the world Billions of dollars.
For a guy worried about the population bomb, he sure took a long time to subtract the population count by one.
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