{"id":1794120,"date":"2023-01-03T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794120"},"modified":"2023-01-03T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:34:10","slug":"i-watched-the-60-minutes-doomsday-diatribe-on-overpopulation-so-you-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-watched-the-60-minutes-doomsday-diatribe-on-overpopulation-so-you-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I Watched The \u201960 Minutes\u2019 Doomsday Diatribe On Overpopulation So You Don\u2019t Have To"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-watched-the-60-minutes-doomsday-diatribe-on-overpopulation-so-you-dont-have-to%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>CBS News believed that the best way to begin 2023 was through a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 Minutes<\/a>\u201d segment on overpopulation featuring Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University\u2019s Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus, as the centerpiece voice. <\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich is perhaps best known for being the author of \u201cThe Population Bomb,\u201d A book that was published almost 55 years ago. He\u2019s also known for making a catastrophically wrong prediction in that same book.<\/p>\n<p>If you were born during the 1970s, thank your parents that Ehrlich was not mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The next time the media trots out Paul Ehrlich \u2014 and there will be a next time \u2014 it would be best to associate him with another name: Harold Camping. Mr. Camping was a radio personality, evangelist, and radio personality who often predicted. \u201cthe rapture\u201d And the end of the universe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2011\/05\/harold-camping-quotes\/350587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most famously on May 21, 2011<\/a>. Let\u2019s take a look at the failed predictions of Camping and Ehrlich and see if we notice anything:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now,\u201d wrote Ehrlich in \u201cThe Population Bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not talking about a ball game, or a marriage, or graduating from college. We\u2019re talking about the end of the world, a matter of being eternally dead, or being eternally alive, and it\u2019s all coming to a head right now,\u201d Camping.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where their paths diverge, however. After his failed prediction, Camping was ridiculed widely. Ehrlich, on the other hand, still enjoys massive credibility and is then featured as a voice of authority on one of the legacy media\u2019s most prestigious programs. Perhaps it is because Ehrlich has been there. \u2018PhD\u2019 After your name, you are not responsible. <\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich was unblemished after his 50-year failure and shared his latest doomsday predictions to the ever-shrinking legacy news audience.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Scott Pelley: \u201cYou seem to be saying that humanity is not sustainable?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ehrlich: \u201cOh, humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you\u2019d need five more Earths. Not clear where they\u2019re gonna come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich and the parade of PhD\u2019s in the story seem to feel this latest mass extinction is unavoidable, even at one point saying that if you look out your window in the future, \u201cthree quarters of what you think ought to be there is no longer there.\u201d Unfortunately, this alarmism is being heard by the Biden administration as well as their allies in Congress. Perhaps when your record of failure is as bad as Biden\u2019s, you can look past the failed prediction doomsday professors.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the many forms of the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/rep-dan-bishop-takes-575-million-family-planning-endangered-species-biodiversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over half a billion dollars in funding<\/a> For \u201cfamily planning services\u201d An area with population growth \u201cthreatens biodiversity.\u201d Conveniently, and most likely coincidentally, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d Just three days after Biden signed a spending package, Ehrlich was brought in along with the overpopulation team. Nobody thought to inquire if the federal funding is being cut to dole out their latest alarmism to doomsday scholars. Those questions would mean you\u2019re a flat earther, daring to \u201cquestion the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One \u201csolution\u201d CBS experts offer people money to retain their land \u201cwild.\u201d We can offer them more if they are farming on their land. Keep in mind, this is the same group who say we\u2019re overpopulated advocating we use less land for food \u2026 and Joe Biden loves the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after taking office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/biden-commits-to-30-by-2030-conservation-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden introduced his 30 by 30 plan<\/a>. The government aims to seize 30% of American land, water and forests by 2030. He hasn\u2019t mentioned it much over the last two years, but Paul Ehrlich and CBS News are already leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>These failed prophecies by doomsday experts are not being dismissed. Instead, they are gaining ground in billions of dollars and millions upon millions of acres.<\/p>\n<p>These ideas will cause significant disruption, and the Biden administration represents the tip. It appears they\u2019re all adopting a new mantra: Never let a doomsday scenario go to waste.<\/p>\n<p><em>Larry Behrens is the Communications Director for Power The Future, a non-profit that advocates for America\u2019s energy workers. You can follow him on Twitter @larrybehrens, or send him an email: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"1d717c6f6f645d6d726a786f6975787b6869686f78337e727033\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this article are the author&#8217;s and not necessarily those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News felt the best way to start 2023 was with a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d segment on overpopulation featuring Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University\u2019s Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus, as the centerpiece voice. Ehrlich is best known as the author of \u201cThe Population Bomb,\u201d a book published nearly 55 years ago. 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