Malthusians at their finest - Paul Erlich

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His book The Population Bomb? Total failure. Any Malthusian prediction? Total failure When all you have is failure, keep plugging along -- from [Newsbusters](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/sean-long/2014/05/22/alarmist-paul-ehrlich-predicts-need-eat-bodies-your-dead): > **Alarmist Paul Ehrlich Predicts Need to ‘Eat the Bodies of Your Dead’**
The zombie apocalypse is nigh! The zombie apocalypse is nigh! > > Well, no it isn’t. In fact, it’s probably as likely to occur as the rest of Paul Ehrlich’s predictions. > > Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist famous for his widely debunked book “The Population Bomb,” doubled down on his climate change and overpopulation fear-mongering with HuffPost Live on May 21. Ehrlich warned host Josh Zepps that the dangers of overpopulation are growing, blaming Republicans and the media for failing to take action. While hawking a new book called “Hope On Earth,” Ehrlich’s co-author Michael Tobias praised Ehrlich’s older, outrageously wrong predictions and said they underestimated the problem. > > Ehrlich, after falsely predicting human “oblivion” 46 years ago, told Zepps humans must soon begin contemplating “eat[ing] the bodies of your dead” after resources are depleted (fava beans and a nice Chianti optional, apparently). > > Despite the fact that this “oblivion,” never came about, he still pushed alarmist predictions. Ehrlich claimed that scarcity of resources will get so bad that humans will need to drastically change our eating habits and agriculture. Instead, we will soon begin asking “is it perfectly okay to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry?” He added that humanity is “moving in that direction with a ridiculous speed.” And clearly, this man knows “ridiculous.” > The Population Bomb was published in 1968 -- how he ever got tenure, let alone at Stanford, beggars the imagination. Erlich was also promoting the coming Ice Age along with Obama science czar John Holdren. More [here](http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/the-global-cooling-scare-revisited/) and [here](http://www.climatedepot.com/2009/10/06/dont-miss-it-climate-depots-factsheet-on-1970s-coming-ice-age-claims-2/). These people are absolutely gobsmackingly clueless.

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