Ehrlich’s Rubber Duckie

The anti-human death cultist and depopulation fan Paul Ehrlich has won the Financial Post’s inaugural Rubber Duck Award for junk science.

The FP gives us a few highlights of the brilliantly deluded Ehrlich:

  • “The battle to feed all of humanity is over … hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” (1968)
  • “By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.” (1969)
  • “By 1980 the United States would see its life expectancy drop to 42 because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population would drop to 22.6 million.” (1969)
  • “Smog disasters” in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. (1969)
  • “I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” (1969)
  • “In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” (1970)
  • “Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too many rich people…” (1990)
  • “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” (1992)

I direct your attention awaty from the despicable death-cultist to the heroic anti-Ehrlich, Norman Borlaug, who deserves that you read the linked article.

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