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 '''Paul Ehrlich''' (b. 1932 – d. March 13, 2026) was a biologist who wrote ''[[The Population Bomb]]'' in 1968, predicting that hundreds of millions of people would die of [[starvation]] during the 1970s because the earth's inhabitants would multiply at a faster rate than the world's ability to supply food.<ref>"In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." [http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm]</ref>
-(Ehrlich's predicted famines never materialized. Indeed, the death toll from [[famine]]s steadily declined over the twenty-five-year period. Though [[world population]] has grown by more 50% since 1968, food production has grown at an even faster rate due to technological advances.  Ehrlich completely failed to anticipate that the [[Green Revolution]] which was then ongoing would increase food production faster than population growth.  [[Norman Borlaug]], the "father of the Green Revolution", has since become critical of Ehrlich, noting that Ehrlich was one of the "worst critics we had" and had claimed that Borlaug's work at increasing food output wouldn't make a dent in world hunger, when in fact Borlaug's work succeeded.) <ref>http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm</ref><ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/27665.html</ref>
+Ehrlich's predicted famines never materialized. Indeed, the death toll from [[famine]]s steadily declined over the twenty-five-year period. Though [[world population]] has grown by more 50% since 1968, food production has grown at an even faster rate due to technological advances.  Ehrlich completely failed to anticipate that the [[Green Revolution]] which was then ongoing would increase food production faster than population growth.  [[Norman Borlaug]], the "father of the Green Revolution", has since become critical of Ehrlich, noting that Ehrlich was one of the "worst critics we had" and had claimed that Borlaug's work at increasing food output wouldn't make a dent in world hunger, when in fact Borlaug's work succeeded.<ref>http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm</ref><ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/27665.html</ref>
 Ehrlich lost a famous bet with [[Julian Simon]] having to do with the scarcity of mineral resources.  Simon's thesis, rooted in [[classical economics]], was that the [[market]] will always seek substitutes for scarce resources, and therefore catastrophic predictions of high prices of resources due to depletion will not come to pass.  Ehrlich had bet a basket of commodities would increase in price, Simon had bet they would decrease.

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-'''Paul Ehrlich''' is a biologist who wrote ''The Population Bomb'' in 1968, predicting that hundreds of millions of people would die of [[starvation]] during the 1970s because the earth's inhabitants would multiply at a faster rate than world's ability to supply food.<ref>"In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." [http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm]</ref>
+'''Paul Ehrlich''' (b. 1932 – d. March 13, 2026) was a biologist who wrote ''[[The Population Bomb]]'' in 1968, predicting that hundreds of millions of people would die of [[starvation]] during the 1970s because the earth's inhabitants would multiply at a faster rate than the world's ability to supply food.<ref>"In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." [http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm]</ref>
-(Ehrlich's predicted famines never materialized. Indeed, the death toll from [[famine]]s steadily declined over the twenty-five year period. Though [[world population]] has grown by more 50% since 1968, food production has grown at an even faster rate due to technological advances.  Ehrlich completely failed to anticipate that the [[Green Revolution]] which was then ongoing would increase food production faster than population growth.  [[Norman Borlaug]], the "father of the Green Revolution", has since become critical of Ehrlich, noting that Ehrlich was one of the "worst critics we had" and had claimed that Borlaug's work at increasing food output wouldn't make a dent in world hunger, when in fact Borlaug's work succeeded.) <ref>http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm</ref><ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/27665.html</ref>
+(Ehrlich's predicted famines never materialized. Indeed, the death toll from [[famine]]s steadily declined over the twenty-five-year period. Though [[world population]] has grown by more 50% since 1968, food production has grown at an even faster rate due to technological advances.  Ehrlich completely failed to anticipate that the [[Green Revolution]] which was then ongoing would increase food production faster than population growth.  [[Norman Borlaug]], the "father of the Green Revolution", has since become critical of Ehrlich, noting that Ehrlich was one of the "worst critics we had" and had claimed that Borlaug's work at increasing food output wouldn't make a dent in world hunger, when in fact Borlaug's work succeeded.) <ref>http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7111.htm</ref><ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/27665.html</ref>
 Ehrlich lost a famous bet with [[Julian Simon]] having to do with the scarcity of mineral resources.  Simon's thesis, rooted in [[classical economics]], was that the [[market]] will always seek substitutes for scarce resources, and therefore catastrophic predictions of high prices of resources due to depletion will not come to pass.  Ehrlich had bet a basket of commodities would increase in price, Simon had bet they would decrease.
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 *Despite his lengthy [[green (politics)|green]]-[[left]] credentials and his terrible track record as a prognosticator, NBC contracted with Ehrlich in 1990 to produce a 12-part series on global ecological issues for [[NBC News]]. NBC cast the radical professor as a disinterested scientist dispassionately explaining global warming and environmental issues. Ehrlich was later nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] for his TV propaganda and received a five-year [[MacArthur Fellowship]]. [[PBS]] subsequently made him the subject of a puff-piece documentary. [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Expertly+using+%22experts%22:+leftist+media+organs+selectively+use...-a097822451]
-Ehrlich has one child, a daughter and he brags about his vasectomy.<ref>Dowbiggin, Ian Robert (2008). The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195188585 p. 168.</ref>
+Ehrlich had one child, a daughter and bragged about his vasectomy.<ref>Dowbiggin, Ian Robert (2008). The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195188585 p. 168.</ref>
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	Ehrlich has one child, a daughter and he brags about his vasectomy.<ref>Dowbiggin, Ian Robert (2008). The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195188585 p. 168.</ref>		Ehrlich has one child, a daughter and he brags about his vasectomy.<ref>Dowbiggin, Ian Robert (2008). The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195188585 p. 168.</ref>
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		+	* ''Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment'', co-authored in 1977 by [[John P. Holdren]] and his close colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich. ISBN 0716700298 <ref>[http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/ Book report on Ecoscience: population, resources, environment]</ref>

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 Despite being famously wrong about his two most important predictions, he is still cited as an authority on the environment (by liberals, anyway).
 *Despite his lengthy [[green (politics)|green]]-[[left]] credentials and his terrible track record as a prognosticator, NBC contracted with Ehrlich in 1990 to produce a 12-part series on global ecological issues for [[NBC News]]. NBC cast the radical professor as a disinterested scientist dispassionately explaining global warming and environmental issues. Ehrlich was later nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] for his TV propaganda and received a five-year [[MacArthur Fellowship]]. [[PBS]] subsequently made him the subject of a puff-piece documentary. [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Expertly+using+%22experts%22:+leftist+media+organs+selectively+use...-a097822451]
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