Alarmist Paul Ehrlich Predicts Need to ‘Eat the Bodies of Your Dead’ Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/sean-long/2014/05/22/alarmist-paul-ehrlich-predicts-need-eat-bodies-your-dead#ixzz32jC55pIV
So if AGW commenters and authors can't convince you with logic, they'll try to scare you to death. The biggest problem we face is that there actually citizens that vote who will believe this crap.
"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).
"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).
“The battle to feed humanity is over,”
“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. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate ...”
This mass starvation would be visited on even the richest countries, Ehrlich explained in a 1971 lecture.
“By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people. “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
One of his 1970 predictions: “In 10 years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”
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Fact- agricultural land productivity has increased, the area under cultivation has increased, fewer people are starving. But, some land has been taken out of food production for use as 'carbon sinks', and for 'renewable' fuel.
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"The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it" H L Mencken
Why does anyone pay attention to him?