David Harsanyi: “60 Minutes” Exhumes Enviro Cult Leader For more information about a New Round Of Scaremongering

Earth Biologist warns that the sixth mass extinction is on its way Paul Ehrlich On “60 Minutes” This Sunday. And Since Ehrlich He has made about 20 predictions of extinctions in the past 60 years and is a leading expert on this topic.

Couldn’t “60 Minutes” find a fresh-faced, yet-to-be-discredited neo-Malthusian Are you going to panic about the end of the universe? Why Producers didn’t invite a single guest for a discussion on theories that have been consistently debunked by reality. Because The media is staffed with environmental pessimists who believe that capitalism is causing constant danger. And Ehrlich Perhaps our greatest alarmist.

His 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” One of the most destructive of the 20th Century. The Long screed not only made Ehrlich He was a celebrity, but gave alarmists a patina scientific legitimacy, popularized alarmism in politics, and normalized authoritarian, anti-humanist policies. Ehrlich’s Progeny are media-favored hysterics that other antihumanists favor, such as Al Gore Or Eric Holthaus Or Greta ThunbergShe skipped science and history because she believes we are at the edge of something. “mass extinction.” And All of this is not to mention the thousands other Little Ehrlichs They will push you to eat insects, gluing them to roads and requesting that you give up the most basic conveniences of modernity.

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” The opening line of “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. It He said that it was possible that the oceans would be devoid of life by 1979. United States Its population would plummet from 23 million to 23 millions by 1999 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 known for his famous quote Mademoiselle 1970

When Julian Simon The biologist offered his famous wager. Ehrlich You replied by saying: “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Instead, Ehrlich He selected five natural resources he thought would be in shortage due to human consumption. He The bet was lost on all counts as the composite price index of those commodities, copper, and chromium, fell by more that 40% despite the fact that there were 800 million people born during that period.

It’s It’s more than that Ehrlich He is often wildly wrong about the future, but he never repents. In 2009, Ehrlich Arguments were made that “perhaps the most serious flaw” In “The Population Bomb” It was. “much too optimistic” About the future. “We will soon be asking: is it perfectly OK to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry?” Ehrlich In 2014, it was warned One Year later, there were 200m less people who are hungry than in 1990, despite the fact that there are 2 billion more people living in the country. Earth.

And Much like today’s environmentalists. Ehrlich To save the nation, a variety of economic and authoritarian prescriptions were offered. Earth. Though 1977 “Ecoscience,” A book he co-authored Barack Obama’s Future “science czar” John Holdren, Ehrlich I was toying with the idea of adding “sterilant to drinking water or staple foods” To save the world from human beings, we must force abortions.

How could “60 Minutes” This man is a ridiculous expert on the future.

It It would take a lot to find any concrete factor that has caused human suffering since the 1970s. There Is there less war, terror, poverty, hunger and genocide? By nearly every quantifiable measure the environment is also better now than it was 55 years ago — which is why contemporary alarmists have learned to prophesy “climate” Catastrophes 30-40 years away Perhaps Ehrlich’s The biggest mistake was not living long enough to be proven wrong many times. (Then A man could expect to live to the age of 61 in 1932, which was the year he is born. Today They are likely to live to be 77. Dr. Doom Is 90.)

Fears About “overpopulation” are regularly cited by journalists — who often live in the densest, yet also the wealthiest places — as if it’s one of the world’s most pressing problems, like the threat of war or the election of Republicans. Every Hurricane, tornado, and flood are considered the opening of the Seventh Seal. The Media will try to find the struggling commercial fisherman, but they won’t speak to the billions of people living in developing countries whose lives have drastically improved over the past decade. While Overexcited? Elon Musk Or Kanye Scientists have made one of most important energy breakthroughs in human history, possibly in the past 100 years.

They always do. We While we may face many challenges in our spiritual and political lives, human ingenuity has always triumphed over all.

David Harsanyi I am a senior editor The Federalist. Harsanyi Nationally syndicated columnist, author of five books, the most recent being “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” His Work has appeared in National Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post Numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.

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