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‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism

Posted on | May 23, 2014 | 52 Comments

Long ago utterly discredited by the falsehood of his “overpopulation” prophecies, Paul Ehrlich is still taken seriously by liberals. He went on HuffPo Live this week to warn that the depletion of natural resources means soon we’ll be forced to “eat the bodies of your dead,” et cetera:

In addition to being full of wild predictions, Ehrlich was prepared to lay extensive blame on Republicans and the media. He accused “every state legislature” of waging a “war on women” and a “war on the environment.” In addition, he blamed former President Ronald Reagan of “stealing from the poor” — all the pro-forma stuff you have to say to make sure of being invited back on HuffPo Live.
Ehrlich viciously attacked pro-life Americans, somehow accusing them of “trying to kill women by making abortion illegal.” Instead, he called for “backup abortions” for any woman who’s birth control failed, in an attempt to control “breeding,” as he put it.

(Via Memeorandum.)

UPDATE: Donald Douglas at American Power observes that, even while the Left’s “scientific” experts are exposed as fools, the fanatic Amanda Marcotte accuses the Right of waging a war on science.

 

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52 Responses to “‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism”

  1. CHideout
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:25 pm

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  2. MrEvilMatt
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:25 pm

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  3. Citzcom
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:25 pm

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  4. Lockestep1776
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:25 pm

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  5. WeRResistance
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:25 pm

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  6. rsmccain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:29 pm

    ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism http://t.co/tBOIsz0RXa #tcot #prolife

  7. AmPowerBlog
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:32 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism http://t.co/tBOIsz0RXa #tcot #prolife

  8. PubliusNV
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:35 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism http://t.co/tBOIsz0RXa #tcot #prolife

  9. M. Thompson
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:39 pm

    Hello Bhaal!

  10. EZ Reader
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:39 pm

    Starting with Malthus, doomsdayers have been banging the overpopulation drum and incorrectly predicting imminent doom for over 200 years…

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  12. Phil_McG
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:53 pm

    Well, that was a blast from the past. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE, YOU GUYS!

  13. maniakmedic
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:55 pm

    I find it terribly fascinating how people who claim titles like scientist and environmentalist know so little about science and the environment. And everything else.

  14. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:57 pm

    The cannibalism is OTT, but he is not too far from the truth…
    http://batshitcrazynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Capture.png

  15. The Daley Gator | Are Populationists as crazy as Feminuts?
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:10 pm

    […] Yes, we know, and I mean know beyond any shadow of any doubt that radical Feminists are KRAZY! But what about those that predict that over population will lead to horrific things like, say cannibalism? How crazy do they have to be? Consider Paul Ehrlich, a special breed of crazy, who Stacy McCain writes about today […]

  16. ameryx
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:26 pm

    I’m confused. If we face starvation, survivable only by cannibalism, wouldn’t we want to discourage abortion, so we’d have more to eat? Jonathan Swift certainly understood the demographics…

  17. Phil_McG
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:35 pm

    Thankfully, I like Chinese.

  18. charles w
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:42 pm

    With a nice Chianti.

  19. kateofkatehall1
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:52 pm

    They told me if I voted for Romney, we’d have to resort to cannibalism… ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts… http://t.co/TljgWyhJ4l

  20. RS
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:54 pm

    Ho, hum. Another Progressive looking to camouflage his desire to get rid of brown people. Given that in 1st World, industrialized nations, the birthrate is below replacement level, any effective population control will be necessarily confined to those populations which are reproducing too much. And yeah, Africa and Indian Subcontinent, I’m looking at you.

    It’s truly amazing that Progressives are so successful at hiding their genocidal tendencies, while screaming incessantly about the Washington Redskins.

  21. Kirby McCain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:54 pm

    We all know the Reagan analogy of the fat man and the thin man. Don’t food stamps really make it the other way around now? Who has their hands in your pockets, big business or big government?

  22. Jim Bond
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:56 pm

    The entire idea of evolution is implicitly racist, if you think about it. It’s basically the idea that the most primitive of hominids have existed, and exist, in Africa.

    As such, blacks are – according to the theory of evolution – the most primitive of people.

  23. ophidianpilot
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:00 pm

    ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism
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  24. Kirby McCain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:16 pm

    The greatest threat to our way of life is global warming or our colossal national debt? To all the experts, don’t forget you can now take care of all your catheter needs online and Medicare will cover 100% of the cost.

  25. Cactus Ed
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:27 pm

    Flagged!

    Where’s the banhammer when you need it?

  26. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:56 pm

    That is exactly true.

  27. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:57 pm

    You back again? Andrew Sullivan, what do you think this is, Sarah Palin’s uterus?

  28. Jim Bond
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:59 pm

    Well, considering that liberals are always talking about evolution, it seems to make tactical and strategic sense to point out that it’s a racist scientific theory.

  29. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:59 pm

    The greatest threat to the environment? Diverting money for habitat protection to useless money wasting climate change boondoggles than benefit liberals and their crony conspirators (looking for grants and lucrative government contracts).

  30. Jim Bond
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:00 pm

    Considering that liberals are always talking about evolution, it seems
    to make tactical and strategic sense to point out that it’s an implicitly racist
    scientific theory.

  31. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:11 pm

    Or at least save them for White House parties’ hors d’oeuvres.

  32. Ms Anonymous
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:25 pm

    Republicans are killing everyone through economics so we must embrace communism! Oh wait…. What happens in communist revolutions? A whole shitload of people are murdered.

  33. Steve Skubinna
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:27 pm

    I’m surprised he doesn’t advocate for retroactive abortions… ethical titan Peter Singer has. In fact, I’ll bet Erlich, when he’s sure he’s among like minded folks, is quite open about culling the herd.

    P.J. O’Rourke once characterized environmentalism as “Just enough of me, way too many of you.”

  34. Neo
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:48 pm

    Paul Erlich PhD also wrote a bunch of stuff with John Holdren PhD (engineering and plasma physics) who is now Pres**ent Barack Obama’s Science Advisor.

    Back in 1974, they both wrote of the “population bomb” in a piece called “Human Population and the Global Environment“.

  35. Matt_SE
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:57 pm

    Ah, Amanda Marcotte. That well (and I think that’s the appropriate term) never runs dry.

  36. Matt_SE
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 7:06 pm

    Pre-emptive response: “hotdogs down a hallway.”

  37. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 7:08 pm

    You speak of liberals as if you were not one of them. How odd.

  38. Quartermaster
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 7:39 pm

    Big Biz tries to use Big Gov to get into our wallet.

  39. BobBelvedere
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 8:01 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism http://t.co/tBOIsz0RXa #tcot #prolife

  40. Neo
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 8:05 pm

    They aren’t “retroactive abortions” … think of them as ultra late term abortions

  41. Dennis M.
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 10:15 pm

    Paul Ehrlich is still alive? I thought he was eaten by his house-pets ages ago….

  42. Wombat_socho
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 10:58 pm

    Sooner or later, he will be getting the hint.

  43. Wombat_socho
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 11:00 pm

    No such luck. Since only the good die young, we’re going to be stuck with the senile old jerk for a while yet.

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  45. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 1:50 am

    And usually making the exact same error: assuming present trends continue. They never do. That’s why they call them “trends.”

  46. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 1:54 am

    It doesn’t matter which is the greater threat. The only solution to either is rapid economic growth.

    Every single environmental advance has been made by those in nations wealthy enough to afford such things. Countries that struggle to feed their people can’t afford to worry about pollution.

    If “environmentalists” really cared about the environment, they should do everything possible to get the hell out of the way of the maximum economic growth, because environmental protection is directly related to per-capita wealth. And always will be.

  47. Matt_SE
    May 24th, 2014 @ 2:02 am

    Which is why we need to implement Logan’s Run ASAP. We can dismantle it after we get rid of Paul Ehrlich.

  48. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 2:28 am

    Ehrlich was never shy about predictions – he made lots of specific ones. None came to pass. EVER.

  49. rsmccain
    May 24th, 2014 @ 1:31 pm

    RT @kateofkatehall1: They told me if I voted for Romney, we’d have to resort to cannibalism… ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts… http://…

  50. DaTechGuyblog
    May 24th, 2014 @ 1:32 pm

    RT @kateofkatehall1: They told me if I voted for Romney, we’d have to resort to cannibalism… ‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts… http://…