"“Rich western countries are now siphoning up the planet’s resources and destroying its ecosystems at an unprecedented rate. We have triggered a major extinction event. The question is: how do we stop it?” (The United States) However, if everyone consumed resources at the US level – which is what the world aspires to – you will need another four or five Earths.
Wow, with a nose like that, I would say the good doctor/professor/environmental champion Is using up more than his fair share of O2
He’s right about one species “liberalis obnoxious”
Finally we’ll be rid of liberals.
Ehrlich is back with his hysterical BS?
He also said we’d all be eating each other by 1990 back in 1968.
He’s been wrong on EVERYTHING for 50 years now. Why bother the print his lunatic crap?
Oh but he did manage to convince an entire generation of idiots not to reproduce and to kill their children in utero.
A one man genocide machine.
Do you part to save Earth, Ehrlich.....off yourself, thereby reducing your bleeding of mother Gaia.
The rich, western nations are the problem?
Perhaps we should be more like China? The 1.3B people crowded into their polluted cities are role models for the way we should live?
If the NeoCon nutjobs have their way, there won’t be any species alive by the end of this DECADE, much less the century.
Paul Erlich has been wrong about absolutely everything up to now, but that slow him down.
Overpopulation in Africa and Asia has endangered many species, which are now a dwindling food source instead of protected species. The U.S., however, has more wildlife refuges than probably any country.
Heard the same thing back in the 70s.
AL Gore said the artic summer ice would be gone by 2013 as would the polar bears.
A Loud Book That Excited Many
ByRichard Reese (author of Understanding Sustainability)on November 19, 2014
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In 1968, biologist Paul Ehrlich achieved infamy by publishing The Population Bomb, one of the most controversial eco-books ever printed. Ehrlich has been condemned to spend eternity with Thomas Malthus, in a dungeon reserved for doom perverts. To this day, professors still use the two lads as great reasons to never take seriously anyone who asserts that there are limits to growth. We all know, of course, that humankind has no limits. We have technology!
Actually, Malthus never predicted catastrophic famine. He simply stated the obvious — when population reaches overshoot, the death rate will automatically rise to restore balance, one way or another (starvation, disease, conflict). A thousand people cannot prosper if forced to share ten cheeseburgers a day. The overshoot ceiling rises when food is abundant, and falls when food is scarce. Malthus was not a doomer. His cardinal sin was declaring the obvious — that there are limits to growth.
Ehrlich, on the other hand, actually did predict catastrophic famine, and soon. The first lines in his book are, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” Millions indeed starved, but not hundreds of millions. Everyone agrees that this prediction was inaccurate or premature.
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Paul Ehrlich, of Stanford University in California, the Harvard of the West Coast, filled with Intellectuals yet Idiots/
Ehrlich is their poster boy for Intellectual Yet and Idiot!
Ultimately, (and not directly related to the post) to survive humans will have to not eradicate themselves and then leave this planet to colonize other outposts in our solar system. It’s just a matter of technological capability.
I “could” be a billionaire. But highly unlikely.
Does that incloud Democrats?
Lemme tell ya about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with nature. Over 90 percent, over, way over 90 percent, of the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone. Whooosh! They’re extinct. We didn’t kill them all. They just disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day—and I mean regardless of our behavior. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorrow. Let them go gracefully. Leave nature alone. Haven’t we done enough?Amazing how Ehrlich makes “four or five Earths” somehow appear out of one Earth. Does he even know the first law of thermodynamics?? Ehrlich is exactly the kind of person that Carlin was talking about.
We’re so self-important; so self-important. Everybody’s gonna save something now. ‘Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.’ And the greatest arrogance of all, ‘save the planet.’ What? Are these ****ing people kidding me? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned to care for one another—we’re gonna save the ****in’ planet? I’m gettin’ tired of that ****. Tired of that ****. Tired! I’m tired of ****in’ Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white bourgeoise liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalist don’t give a **** about the planet, they don’t care about the planet, not in the abstract they don’t, not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet, nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The people are ****ed. …
— George Carlin
Save the planet - kill yourself.
An Erlich prediction? Oh Jeez...