CBS ran a not-so-happy New Year story Sunday night on their first “60 Minutes” episode of 2023. They ran an interview with Biologist Paul Ehrlich, 90, in which he suggested that a mass extinction was happening right now.
In fact, he described the same kind of dire prediction that years ago he said would happen in the 1970s. Whoops.
Despite being disproven decades ago, he doubled down on his best-selling premise that “too many people, too much consumption, and growth mania” is killing the world.
It was Ehrlich’s “anti-human” rhetoric that helped to inspire China’s one-child policy which resulted in hundreds of millions of abortions.
Ehrlich is an American biologist and professor emeritus of population studies at Stanford University. He has also served as a correspondent for NBC News.
Ehrlich said in the “60 Minutes” interview that the “rate of extinction is extraordinarily high now and getting higher all the time.”
“Humanity is not sustainable,” he claimed. “To maintain our lifestyle — yours and mine, basically — for the entire planet, you’d need five more earths. Not clear where they’re gonna come from.”
He maintains that there are insufficient resources and humanity is sitting on a limb that is in the process of sawing off.
His most popular book was written in 1968 called “The Population Bomb.” It maintained that hundreds of millions of people would soon perish from starvation because of overpopulation. He advocated for coercive population control, such as abortion and birth control.
Ehrlich predicted that civilization would meet its end in the 1970s; England would disappear by the year 2000; India was doomed; and American life expectancy would drop to 42 years by 1980.
With so many predictions proven false, what does CBS do? They headline his doomsday message on the first day of the Happy New Year.
Correct.
Ehrlich has simultaneously the worst and most evil track record of any "intellectual."
He's been consistently wrong about everything forever…and yet his "ideas" appeal a lot to the elite because they think everyone who isn't them is yucky! https://t.co/R5EHOICkZw
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) January 2, 2023
His “Population Bomb” book might the most damaging anti-human thing ever written
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 2, 2023
