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Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a 6th Mass Extinction Event
January 5, 2023
Guest Opinion by Chris Talgo
Excerpt:
On January 1, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” rang in the new year by airing a segment in which several scientists, including Dr. Paul Ehrlich, predicted that we are on the cusp of a sixth mass extinction event and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Suffice to say, Ehrlich does not have a stellar track record when it comes to making predictions about impending planetary doom. For those unaware of Ehrlich, in 1968 he authored The Population Bomb, in which he wrote, “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…nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
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While I do agree that human population growth is unsustainable for reasons other than food supply and that we do waste a lot of energy and Petroleum due to poor housing and building designs and profligate consumption lifestyles.
60 biased minutes gave this long running error filled whack job a fawning interview.
Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a 6th Mass Extinction Event
January 5, 2023
Guest Opinion by Chris Talgo
Excerpt:
On January 1, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” rang in the new year by airing a segment in which several scientists, including Dr. Paul Ehrlich, predicted that we are on the cusp of a sixth mass extinction event and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Suffice to say, Ehrlich does not have a stellar track record when it comes to making predictions about impending planetary doom. For those unaware of Ehrlich, in 1968 he authored The Population Bomb, in which he wrote, “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…nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
LINK
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While I do agree that human population growth is unsustainable for reasons other than food supply and that we do waste a lot of energy and Petroleum due to poor housing and building designs and profligate consumption lifestyles.
60 biased minutes gave this long running error filled whack job a fawning interview.
“A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific.” – Karl Popper
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