(that bombed) Turns 50
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I read it when it first came out in paperback. Yeah I know...I was a 'young skull full of mush' at the time.
Not TOO much mush as it turns out. I thought it was a load of crap. It turns out I was right. It's one hundred percent bovine excretion.
HOWEVER...it defines the narrative so the enemedia latched onto it like white on rice.
It doesn't MATTER that.
Ehrlich prophesied that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s (and that 65 million of them would be Americans), didn't happen
that already-overpopulated India was doomed, didn't happen
and that most probably “England will not exist in the year 2000.” didn't happen either. Merry old England is still there...killing it's babies. England is TRYING to become extinct...gotta give it that.
in fact.
- birthrates are now below long-term replacement levels nearly everywhere, a trend he examined in his 2010 book, The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet’s Surprising Future
Not only was Ehrlich wrong..he was SPECTACULARLY wrong...about everything, so why is he, and his narrative, held in such high esteem? His discredited population explosion theories of the 1970s are juxtaposed with the (equally alarmist) global warming predictions of our day.
In other words climate alarmism is just as wrong as the population bomb was.
And yet it's still the
NARRATIVE
Why?