Timothy Birdnow

Paul Ehrlich, the goofball academic who wrote The Population Bomb and The Population Explosion has put his money where his mouth was, kindly removing himself from the horrible impact of overpopulation.

Ehrlich was one of the most dangerous and destructive intellectuals of his age. Sadly his legacy continues to reverberate down the corridores of post-modern thought. Most on the Left ultimately still buy into his view that overpopulation will destroy all life on Earth. Global warming is an issue primarily because of Ehrlich; it emphasized climate damage from industrial activity but in the end the presupposition is there are too many people who NEED stuff and who move about making this "carbon pollution". Without Ehrlich we would never have had the whole climate War of the Worlds scare in the first place. And abortion would have been much harder to implement without the specter of overpopulation. In fact most of the neo-fascist agenda of the modern Left is predicated on the fear of overpopulation.

Ehrlich was a sloppy researcher, a vain and shallow fellow who bought himself the spotlight at terrible cost to others.

China's one child policy is easily traced back to Ehrlich's Malthusian theory, for instance.

Ehrlich caught on during the seventies when there was an apocalyptic mood in the Western world and he offered a doomsday vision that essentially said more children mean our extinction. This led to determined efforts to reduce our population growth, which in turn led to a deficit of people to pay taxes and do the work that previous generations had. This in turn led to the idea of using mass migration from the Third World to "do the work Americans (or Europeans or Aussies) Just Won't Do" and it is why the Western world is now being overrun by barbarians from shithole countries, and many of these immigrants hate us and plot our overthrow. This was the fruit of Ehrlich.

So I won't be shedding too many tears for this man. His life's labor bore horribly rotten fruit.

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