‘60 Minutes’ For a new round of scaremongering, exhumes Enviro Cult leader

Earth is heading towards a sixth extinction warned biologist Paul Ehrlich on “60 Minutes” This Sunday. And since Ehrlich has predicted about 20 extinctions over the past 60 years, he’s a leading expert on the issue.

Why didn’t “60 Minutes” have the decency to find a fresh-faced, yet-to-be-discredited neo-Malthusian to hyperventilate about the end of the world? Why didn’t producers invite a single guest to push back against theories that have been reliably debunked by reality? Because media staff is filled with environmental pessimists who believe that capitalism is constantly in danger. Ehrlich is probably our greatest alarmist.

His 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” One of the most destructive acts of the 20th Century. Ehrlich was not only killed by the lengthy screed. celebrityBut, they gave alarmists at the end of the day a patina that scientific legitimacy, popularized alarmism and made it a standard political tool. Ehrlich’s progeny are other media-favored hysterics by other antihumanists, such as Al Gore or Eric Holthaus or Greta Thunberg, who skipped learning history and science because she also believes we are on the precipice of “mass extinction.” All of this, without mentioning the thousands of Little Ehrlichs who will push you to eat insects. gluing They will not allow themselves to be driven on roads and demand that you give up the most basic modern conveniences and needs.

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” The opening line “The Population Bomb” reads. “In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now,” Ehrlich wrote. He stated that it was possible that the oceans would be devoid of life by 1979, and that the United States’ population would plummet to 23,000,000 by 1999, due to pesticides. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years,” He is well-known for his famously told Mademoiselle in 1970.

Julian Simon gave the biologist his famed wagerEhrlich replied by saying, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Ehrlich instead chose five natural resources that he thought would be in short supply due to human consumption. Ehrlich lost the bet on every count, as the composite price index of those commodities, copper/chromium, plummeted by more than 40 per cent despite the fact there were 800,000,000 new people in that period.

It’s not merely that Ehrlich is always spectacularly wrong about the future but that he remains unrepentant. Ehrlich stated in 2009 that “perhaps the most serious flaw” In “The Population Bomb” It was. “much too optimistic” The future. “We will soon be asking: is it perfectly okay to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry?” Ehrlich warned 2014 A year later, there were 200,000,000 fewer people Hunger is more common today than it was in 1990, even though there are 2 billion more people.