I do not get why anyone gives him the time of day other than to mock him. He’s like Chicken Little.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to 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,” asserted Paul Ehrlich in his prologue to The Population Bomb(1968). He added, “We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.”
“Collapse of civilization is a near certainty within decades,” reads the headline ofThe Guardian articletoday featuring Ehrlich’s latest prognostications. “Population growth, along with over-consumption per capita, is driving civilisation over the edge: billions of people are now hungry or micronutrient malnourished, and climate disruption is killing people,” says Ehrlich.
The Guardian does report that “many details and timings of events were wrong, Paul Ehrlich acknowledges today, but he says the book was correct overall.” Correct overall? Not hardly.