John Stossel: Population Panic

You heard it! The end is coming for the entire world!

“60 Minutes” Paul Ehrlich, the author of The Bestseller, was recently featured. “The Population Bomb.” “Humanity is not sustainable,” He stated.

Why would you? “60 Minutes” interview Ehrlich?

Ehrlich has been saying this for many years. “We are very close to a famine” and, “In the next 15 years, the end will come.” He has been wrong repeatedly.

Yet, “60 Minutes” takes him seriously. “Paul Ehrlich may have lived long enough to see some of his dire prophecies come true,” intoned reporter Scott Pelley. Now, “60 Minutes” says, “scientists say” The earth is in midst of a “mass extinction”!

Doom is a popular choice.

Ehrlich’s book was sold in staggering 3 million copies. It claimed that an increase in the Earth’s population would lead worldwide famine.

The reverse happened.

The world’s population has more than doubled. But there are now We offer less famine!

“60 Minutes” While Ehrlich was incorrect about widespread starvation being widespread, they didn’t mention his other ridiculous predictions. One was that England would not exist in 2000 due to climate change.

Ehrlich won’t speak to me right now, but Ehrlich answered my producer seven years ago when he was asked about his absurdity. “When you predict the future, you get things wrong.”

The media should stop listening to doomssayers such as Ehrlich and give more attention Marian Tupy, editor at HumanProgress.org, more space.

In my new videoTupy reminds us that “life is getting better.” The modern age has seen a greater number of people live longer and less poverty.

Universities, media, and politicians all believe capitalism is destroying the Earth, so young people pour soup on famous paintings. Because we are facing an apocalypse, it’s morally right to believe that.

“If you sell the apocalypse,” Tupy says, “people feel like you are deep and that you care” But “if you are selling rational optimism, you sound uncaring.”

Uncaring? They are the ones who hate people. Ehrlich even suggested the idea of sterilizing people and having the government poison our food to reduce population growth.

“Ehrlich sees human beings as destroyers rather than creators,” Tupy says, “no different from rabbits. When they consume all grass around us, their population explodes, but then it’s going to collapse. But human beings are fundamentally different. We have the capacity to innovate.”

It’s paradoxical to think that humans can be beneficial for the environment. “We use stuff,” Tupy, I say.

“We use stuff, but we also grow stuff,” He responds. “What matters is new knowledge. Think about something as simple as sand. When we started melting down sand to create glass, we used the first glass for glass beads. Now we create microchips.”

Similar innovations in farming, transportation, and genetic engineering are the reasons why our population isn’t destroying nature.

“Forests have grown by 35% in North America and Western Europe in the last 20 years,” Tupy points.

This is because of the innovative ways that humans have created to grow more food on a smaller amount of land. Additionally, wealthy countries can afford to conserve nature.

Human innovation can only be achieved by this idea. Help Nature is not as popular as the notion that humans are responsible for destroying the earth.

Many young people believe they are being misled and don’t want children.

However, that would be a great idea. Hurt The world is changing! Climate change is most likely more dangerous than the declining number of women having babies. We need young people to help us take care of our aging population. They also need to be able to create solutions for Earth’s problems.

There are more children who could become scientists or cure cancer.

Innovation isn’t possible if there aren’t enough people.

“Certainly not,” Tupy. “If the number of people was all that mattered, China would have been the richest country for centuries. What you need is people, and freedom. If you let human beings be free, they will create more value for everyone.”