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Paul Ehrlich

Stanford Entomologist and Ecologist. Author of The Population Bomb (1968) and The Population Explosion (1990).
Item added by DrEntropy. Added on 05/05/2006
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irishgit
05/26/2008

Paul Ehrlich 1

Despite the fact that this guy has been unsuccessfully predicting world-wide famine since at least 1970, and virtually all of his ideas have been discredited with the passage of time and reality, he is still the darling of several environmental fund-raising groups.

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DrEntropy
05/05/2006

Paul Ehrlich 1

Has been predicting mass famines world-wide since the 1960s. Notorious for losing a highly publicized bet he made with economist Julian Simon (the bet was that the price of several key commodities would rise/fall over several years). Ehrlich is, I assume, a talented scientist in his field of expertise (the study of insects, particularly butterflies) but his more general theories about the inability of the planet to support a massive increase in human life since the 1960s have proven wrong.

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