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Anti-human doomsayer Paul Ehrlich is dead. Here are a few of the MANY predictions he got 100% wrong.
You may have caught The New York Times' obituary this week on the death of climate doomsayer Paul Ehrlich:
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You may have caught The New York Times' obituary this weekon the death of climate doomsayer Paul Ehrlich:
Yep. They love him!
View: https://x.com/AndrewCFollett/status/2033567324662313211?
Most incredibly, the newspaper is alleging that Ehrlich issued a "prescient warning" of environmental disaster.
Prescient, of course, means you predict things before they happen. But Ehrlich, as you may very well know, did not do that — he predicted many, many things that never happened at all.
The New York Times is right — Ehrlich's seminal work "The Population Bomb" did indeed warn of catastrophic looming environmental crises including famines and mass death.
Among the numerous things he predicted incorrectly:
This was, of course, entirely false. It did not happen. It is hard to overstate how wrong this was. Indeed, after the communist-run Great Leap Forward famine in 1950s-1960s China, major famines have become a vanishing rarity on the global stage, as this World Peace Foundation graph demonstrates:
I'm struggling to see "hundreds of millions" of famine deaths there!
Elsewhere, in a comical essay that presented itself as being written from the future, Ehrlich claimed the U.S. population in 1999 would be around 22 million, the result of a famine-induced "Great Die-Off:"
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I don't think I need to tell you that the U.S. population was, um, slightly larger that year:
He also alleged in 1970 that the Earth was on the verge of a catastrophic marine mortality event:
Y'all, the fish didn't die. We still have fish in the oceans, at least until communist China sucks the oceans dry!
In 1969, he also placed a high probability on the likelihood that England "would not exist" by the year 2000, and that at the very least it would be a ruined country:
England, of course, was fine in 2000. I mean, they were just about to implement suicidally-high levels of immigration that has resulted in chaos and violence and civil breakdown. But there were no mass famines.
Heck, one of the biggest shows on Amazon Prime right now is about English farmers!
Amazingly, his predictions even addressed the possibility of obesity-related chemical poisoning:
If I'm reading that correctly, I think that means that obese people will have to stay obese, or else the DDT in their fats will poison them...? I think?
Well, nothing like that has happened. There are still many obese people in the world; many others have gone on diets and gotten thin. No mass DDT poisoning that I'm aware of.
Years and years after his predictions were proven to be devastatingly untrue, Ehrlich was incredibly still making claims about the coming eco-apocalypse:
Just taking a quick look to see if Washington, D.C. is still above water...
Nuts, unfortunately it is.
Well, chalk another loss up to Paul Ehrlich.
The effect that Ehrlich's false prophecies had on the Western world cannot be overstated. He convinced millions of Westerners not to have kids and not to invest in future generations. I don't have time here to explain how that has led to many of the crises we face as a civilization today.
RIP to a comprehensive scientific fraud who spread a poisonous, hateful, anti-human ideology across the world.
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