The following comes from a May 22 story on NewsBusters.com.
The zombie apocalypse is nigh! The zombie apocalypse is nigh!
Well, no it isn’t. In fact, it’s probably as likely to occur as the rest of Paul Ehrlich’s predictions.
Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist famous for his widely debunked book The Population Bomb, doubled down on his climate change and overpopulation fear-mongering with HuffPost Live on May 21. Ehrlich warned host Josh Zepps that the dangers of overpopulation are growing, blaming Republicans and the media for failing to take action. While hawking a new book called Hope On Earth, Ehrlich’s co-author Michael Tobias praised Ehrlich’s older, outrageously wrong predictions and said they underestimated the problem.
Ehrlich, after falsely predicting human “oblivion” 46 years ago, told Zepps humans must soon begin contemplating “eat[ing] the bodies of your dead” after resources are depleted (fava beans and a nice Chianti optional, apparently).
Despite the fact that this “oblivion,” never came about, he still pushed alarmist predictions. Ehrlich claimed that scarcity of resources will get so bad that humans will need to drastically change our eating habits and agriculture. Instead, we will soon begin asking “is it perfectly okay to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry?” He added that humanity is “moving in that direction with a ridiculous speed.” And clearly, this man knows “ridiculous.”
Ehrlich is widely known for his 1968 publication of The Population Bomb which called for “population control” to prevent global crises from overpopulation. In this book he predicted that “In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death” and “[our children] will inherit a totally different world, a world in which the standards, politics, and economics of the 1960’s are dead….”
To read the entire NewsBusters posting, click here.
Maybe he should be first on the menu…he looks like he came out of a grave!
He’d definitely be on the low-cal, low protein menu, jcross…and probably a health warning would need to be added in small print that a steady diet of Erlich au-gratin can lead to confused thinking, cause constipation, constant anxiety about over-population, and a bloated ego, not to mention excessive hot air and gas.
Paul Ehrlich’s is a ‘priest’ of Leftist radicals so it would stand to reason that his predictions would be forced onto the rest of us by all those who worship at the altar of science.
… and Soylent Green is made out of people. Good grief.
Tracy:
What Ehrlich wrote was NOT science. “Scientism” is an error in itself, but his writings are a cruel fantasy. When I became department chair at the high school where I used to teach, one of my first acts was to pitch his books off our shelves – and into the trash.
Scientism is an error in and of itself. Oh my god. When, pray tell, will you convene an ecumenical council to rail against scientism???? Vatican III anyone? Anyone???
Overpopulation? LOL. It is a mathematical certainty that the entire population of the world can fit comfortably into single family houses in the State of Texas, with substantial land left over.
One thing he didn’t see coming was the “Green Revolution” in agriculture. My grandfather was from the Central Valley and said that with Israeli drip irrigation techniques they could, if distribution problems were solved, feed the world. However food security in the developing world is still an issue we need to worry about. I think Pope Francis will mobilize support for it much better than Mr. Ehrlich ever could.
At 82 years old, Paul Ehrlich and his alarmist theories are very old.