Quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul R. Ehrlich

Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.

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After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we’ve had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they’re spread out; they’re not dramatic news events.

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Moving

Order

All scientists who’ve looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we’ve got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we’re still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It’s not going to be an easy transition.

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Mean

Technology

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

Birth Rate

Favour

Voting

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

Levels

People

Population

Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.

Chinese

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Government

For example, I’m a great fan of pornography, but I don’t see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don’t have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I’m kidding about pornography, but you get the point.

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Hate

People

Here’s the scientific community saying, fundamentally, “If we don’t change our ways, we’re screwed.” And they got no attention at all. Even though the Union of Concerned Scientists put out this statement which was signed by more than half of all the Nobel laureates in science and another 1,500 distinguished scientists.

Attention

Community

Half

Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted – the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation’s profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I’m sad to say the Clinton administration didn’t turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they’re the worst administration we’ve ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

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Thinking

I don’t like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that’s a trivial point compared to saving the creation. I’d much rather have half of the people in the country be creationists and work really hard to save the creation than have everybody be evolutionists and be destroying the planet.

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Quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul R. Ehrlich

Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.

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