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Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93
NYT ^ | 3/15/26 | Keith Schneider

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.

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To: Varda

Malthusians think they are destined to live while other people must bear the cost of population reduction.


41 posted on 03/15/2026 1:46:16 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Borges

Gooooooooooooooood riddance!


42 posted on 03/15/2026 1:47:40 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Borges

Ehrlich’s book was the prelude to Idiocracy.


43 posted on 03/15/2026 1:56:40 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: Borges

He was wrong.


44 posted on 03/15/2026 2:01:19 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Redcitizen
I think that's certainly true while they simultaneously believe other people are like ants with absolutely no ability to change what they do under changing conditions.
45 posted on 03/15/2026 2:06:37 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Borges

At least he did his part to reduce the population.


46 posted on 03/15/2026 2:07:17 PM PDT by bwest
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To: Borges

Yeah this guy and his population bomb crap. Then I drove from Long Island to Oklahoma. Nothing. For hundreds of miles at a time. Nothing. Population bomb my ass.


47 posted on 03/15/2026 2:17:06 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: KarlInOhio

And that was before the widespread availability of bottled sriracha.

Brave people.


48 posted on 03/15/2026 2:17:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Borges

During Erlich’s peak, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poet and free speech advocate) said in an interview in a documentary that nearly all the world’s ills are due to overpopulation.

Wars over scarcity of food and resources. Famines around the world. Shortages of water. Inflation. Lack of access to education, healthcare and employment. Biodiversity loss, fishery depletion, and soil degradation. The additives, preservatives and processing of food in order to try to produce more on a faster basis.

Ferlinghetti said the Pope is sinful for denying women abortions, which would solve overpopulation.


49 posted on 03/15/2026 2:26:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: KarlInOhio

I remember the graphic showing the overpopulated globe (with people icons sticking out all over it) that appeared in My Weekly Reader when I was in third grade. The accompanying text told how everyone would starve to death on our overcrowded Earth. I felt very sorry for the poor Australians who would have to starve while hanging upside down. Kids!

They tried frightening us children with The Population Bomb, then it was Global Cooling, then the Ozone Layer, now it’s Global Warming. Interesting how lefties enjoy scaring little children. What does that say about them?


50 posted on 03/15/2026 2:31:06 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Borges

did he ever admit he was full of shit before he died?


51 posted on 03/15/2026 2:36:26 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: fruser1

“celebrated as a prescient warning of a coming age of food shortages and famine but later criticized by conservatives” ... but democrats and leftists continued to celebrate him fore being wrong about so many things ...


52 posted on 03/15/2026 2:38:33 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Borges

Thank you Paul for helping out.


53 posted on 03/15/2026 2:43:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Borges
Why he got it wrong:

The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation

54 posted on 03/15/2026 2:44:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Borges
The West foolishly listened to this crank. The Muslim world and India didn't.

Result? The future will belong to Islam and India unless the West wakes up quickly.
55 posted on 03/15/2026 2:47:03 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Borges

Rather timely, as the man-made global warming hoax itself is in hospice care.


56 posted on 03/15/2026 2:48:38 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Borges

dud. po0ulation blowing DOWN


57 posted on 03/15/2026 2:50:20 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: catnipman

Being a leftist means never having to apologize when you’re wrong.


58 posted on 03/15/2026 2:50:53 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Borges

Remember acid rain?


59 posted on 03/15/2026 2:52:53 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: pissant

Rachel Carson was a particularly evil person. Her book “Silent Spring” was the imputes for banning DDT the most effective insecticide for mosquitos. Thus the mosquitos flourished and Malaria flourished which I caught circa 1982 in Nigeria. The number of Malaria deaths was in the 100s of thousands. The very young and the very old were most of the victims. THANKS BITCH.

Oddly I read her book in the 5th grade and was horrified. That is what she wanted. When 11 years old your critical thinking ability is small. I believed her book but did not become an insane Eco Warrior. In high school I started taking science courses and in college, geology, biological sciences and lastly pharmacy. I had critical thinking skills then and knew Rachael Carson was a charlatan pretending to be a scientist.

She was evil.


60 posted on 03/15/2026 2:57:06 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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