[Tailgunner Joe]

Quotes from Ehrlich's 1968 book, "The Population Bomb":

"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. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..." (p.xi.)

"A minimum of ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century" (p.3)

"Our position requires that we take immediate action at home and promote effective action worldwide. We must have population control at home, hopefully through changes in our value system, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail." (pp.xi-xii)

"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually he dies -- often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance of survival." (p.152)

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Ehrlich and his ilk are nothing more than Nazi scum. These are the people who think that humanity is a parasite, a disease, a cancer to be cut out. Environmentalism is a sick delusion and a form of totalitarianism.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[SAJ]

Erlich was a moron in 1968 and has been losing ground since. Recall his famous wager with the late economist Julian Simon, every single part of which Erlich lost, and you can see by his own actions that he hasn't the first clue about markets, scarcity, human behavior, or any part of macroeconomic theory whatever.

In fairmess, he did (finally, years later) pay off the wager. Look for his picture in the dictionary next to the definition of 'loser'.

[11B3]

It does my heart good to hear that the environazis are finally getting called onto the carpet of actual science. Their doomsday predictions have always been wrong, and their attempts to change the course of humanity will always fail in the face of logic.

[Still Thinking]

"A minimum of ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century" (p.3)

"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually he dies -- often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance of survival." (p.152)

Well, Mr. Ehrlich, what's it going to be? Are there too many people and we need to kill them all off, or are there too FEW because they're starving to death?? Seems like a non-problem to me.

[narby]

I was in Maine recently, and saw a string of "Rachel Carson" parks along the ocean front dedicated to the idiot that wrote "Silent Spring".

Someone needs to begin a drive in that state to change the name of these parks. They need to know that because of the unfounded predictions in that book, millions of people have died from malaria because of the ban on DDT. Rachel Carson has a worse record at killing people than Adolf himself.

[Search4Truth]

I saw George Carlin on cable last night, and he laid into the environmentalist big time. I almost felt bad for them. The audience did not and applauded the opinion. From what I could see, it looked to be the kind of audience that could be full of environmentalists. I don’t remember where the event was located. If there were any environmentalists there, then they were being publicly humiliated by George, who we know does not pull any punches and not known by his diplomacy.

[headsonpikes]

"Ehrlich and his ilk are nothing more than Nazi scum. These are the people who think that humanity is a parasite, a disease, a cancer to be cut out."

Certainly deserves highlighting and repeating. ;^)

[Old Professer]

Not only is Dr. Singer an eminently sensible man, he is a real scientist and a rationalist. I once called him at home on the 4th of July just to ask a question (he didn't know me), he was very polite and it was almost five minutes before I realized that I was interrupting his barbequeing; when I apologized, he said, think nothing of it.

I have had several conversations with him since and even though he knows he can't convince the self-anointed, he continues to publish and to speak publically in that same sane, rational way.

[Scully]

Ping!

[headsonpikes]

Ehrlich and his ilk are nothing more than Nazi scum. These are the people who think that humanity is a parasite, a disease, a cancer to be cut out."

Bumping again. ;^) Deserves to be read!