[sharkhawk]

Paul Ehrlich, professor of population studies at Stanford University who in 1968 wrote The Population Bomb, a best-seller that warned of — some say exaggerated — the threats posed by the growth of human numbers, urged Pianka to hang in there.
Ehrlich, too, received his share of nasty letters, harassing phone calls and protests when his book was published. But that year the human population stood at 3.5 billion. With nearly 6.5 billion people now on the planet, the problem is infinitely more relevant, he said.

They are using Paul Erlhich as a source. The same Paul Ehrlich who predicted massive famine in Western Europe by the 1980's? The same guy who predicted food riots in the US? There's a source for you.

[denydenydeny]

"are going to get better after the collapse because humans won't be able to decimate the Earth so much."

Note that contemporary academia's most acclaimed, award-winning poster boys don't know what the word "decimate" means.

[grundle]

Paul Ehrlich was wrong and so is this guy. Famine isn't caused by "overpopulation." It's caused by dictators like Mugabe who steal the land from the farmers and kick them out of the country.

[Cogadh na Sith]

"This is not politically correct stuff," he acknowledged, sitting in the cluttered university office he has worked in for 38 years.

Yes it is! It is the most politically correct idea.

He should start by killing himself.

[Stegall Tx]

The Doomslayer is an excellent article about Julian Simon, the business professor who challenged Ehrlich to a bet on whether resources would be more or less expensive (and thus more or less scarce). One should be careful about allowing oneself to be compared to Ehrlich, et al.

[Centurion2000]

U.S. government has it all wrong: It should be taxing people for having children, not rewarding them with tax breaks.

And some socialist hasn't crucified him for this? I would think making reproduction a perk of the plutocracy (their words not mine) would be elitist in the extreme.

[dvan]

I have an excellent suggestion. Why doesn't he set a good example and OFF Himself?

[Redbob]

"We should have done something about our population 25 or 30 years ago,"

"We" DID do something, or rather they did, Dr. Doom and his ilk:

They convinced the members of MY generation that the earth was being overpopulated, we were running out of resources, Oh doom!

So we, the intelligent, educated, moral white folks, stopped having kids, or had far fewer than our parents' generation.

Meanwhile, (a) the Dr. Dooms of the world were as wrong about this as they are about everything else; and
(b) the other demographics kept right on pumping out offspring.

So now whites are a minority in Texas.

My generation was sold a line of crap by the "Dr. Dooms" of this country, and I'm angry about it.

[TheLion]

It was real pertinent to point out that he had air conditioning in his house! I think this guy makes sense.