Paul Ehrlich was dead wrong, but somehow he convinced millions that people are bad and that we need fewer of them.
He predicted mass starvation as a consequence of a growing population, but the opposite happened: When the population grew, hunger dissipated. Now we face a crisis of lowOn This Day: Washington rightly fears the Brits will use smallpox as a chemical weapon Ehrlich just died, which means he can no longer advocate forced sterilization and try to convince everyone that babies are bad.
But the sad thing is, he doesn’t really need to — because much of the population is already so convinced., for the past eight years or so, has been better than any other legacy left-leaning outlet in covering the collapse of theIf you want to see Ehrlich’s effects on the American psyche, check out the reader responses to these articles., “Falling global fertility rates are hardly a cause for handwringing pessimism,” but should instead be celebrated. Another reads, “Fewer people on this planet could very well mean less pollution and destruction of natural habitats, and greater biodiversity. That would be good for all living things, including self-serving humans.”piece: “I admire the young people who are choosing not to have children.” “Earth to the NY Times — falling birthrates are not, I repeat, not a problem … with eight billion people jammed into one overpopulated, overheated planet, the last thing we need is more people.” “Not only are there too many humans worldwide, but there are too many in the developed countries like the U.S. If the developed nations do not decrease their population, the biosphere will be destroyed.” Responses to that 2021 article were similar: “Maybe fewer humans will help the planet and some of humanity survive.” “At an early age, I saw that the explosion of humans on this planet was ruining the world for future generations and all other living species.” “Mother Nature has an answer to her pressing concerns and we are not needed.”published four letters in response to its latest piece on low and falling birth rates, and all four were against babies.When I was the letters editor at The Washington Post, it was consistently shocking to me how many letters we got suggesting it would be a good thing for the human race to just go extinct. about how to make your life easier by having many children, the 6,000 comments were almost all negative. “In this world of over-consumption having so many kids seems selfish. More than that morally reprehensible … relies on a patriarchal view of the family.” “The planet is already overpopulated. The author’s disdain for science and the nature of exponential increase is obvious.” The sad fact is that millions of people believe the planet is overpopulated. That view is grounded in a belief that humans are basically bad.“I was a college student when I read Mr. Ehrlich’s ‘The Population Bomb.’ I took it to heart and now have no grandchildren, but 50 years later the population has increased to eight billion without dire consequences. I was gullible and stupid.”
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