‘Population Bomb’ Author Predicts Cheerful Future of Cannibalism

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

  5. 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.

  8. 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…

  11. 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.

  12. 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?

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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).

  20. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.”

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

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

  35. 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.

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

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