Encyclopedia Entries
Questions of
overpopulation
Reading
The Population Bomb (1968)
Writing available on the net
Commentaries
Sympathetic links
- Ehrlich's Stanford website (http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/Staff/paul.htm)
- Info on The Population Explosion, the 1990 sequel to The Population Bomb (http://www.2think.org/tpe.shtml)
- Simon knew what he was doing! (http://www.mnforsustain.org/ehrlich_ehrlich-simon_bet_knew_what_he_was_doing_erickson.htm)
Critical links
- A critique of Paul Ehrlich (http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/people/paul_ehrlich.html)
- A critical biographical sketch (http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm)
- We're Doomed Again: Paul Ehrlich has never been right. Why does anyone still listen to him? (http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110005103)
- Doomsayer Paul Ehrlich Strikes Out Again (http://www.junkscience.com/news/fumento.htm)
- Ehrlich quotes (http://www.igreens.org.uk/paul_ehrlich.htm)
Quotations
- "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..."
- "a minimum of ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century" (emphasis in the original).
- "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." (said in 1969)
- "We've already had too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure." - Quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in her book Trashing the Planet (1990)
- "Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Quoted by R. Emmett Tyrrell in The American Spectator, September 6, 1992