Media Veracity: Paul Ehrlich Edition

Harris Rigby:

60 Minutes mentions his work “The Population Bomb” from the 60s which included many predictions that have now been proven completely false. The entire premise of the book is that humanity was going to explode in population and the earth could not sustain the growth.

We were told that the entire planet would die of mass starvation unless the population was reduced dramatically. This was in 1968 when the population was 3.5 billion. That number has risen to nearly 8 billion today. His mass starvation, end of civilization prediction has utterly failed. Starvation IMPROVED as the world became more populated.

He is the king of the climate doom and gloomers, and he’s been nothing but wrong for 50 years.