28 July 1971
“I’m scared,” the lean, intense scientist (Paul Ehrlich) told an interviewer. “I have a teenage daughter whom I love very much. I know a lot of young people, and their world is being destroyed – my world is being destroyed. I’m 37, and I’d like to live to be 67 in a reasonably pleasant world, not die in some kind of holocaust in the next decade.”
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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“I’m 37, and I’d like to live to be 67 in a reasonably pleasant world, ”
So not only was Ehrlich completely wrong about a holocaust before 1981, he was also completely wrong about how long he expected to live.
Did Ehrlich ever make one correct prediction?
Somebody should throw a net over this man and haul him away to the insane asylum.
Only the left would consider this man a ‘visionary’, or even a ‘thinker’.
Lawd, the ’70s felt like death!
was in college when Ehirlich started his apocalyptic vision of the future. ashamed to say I swallowed the hook. took years to remove the embedded barb from my cheek. goes to show that all alarmist crap has it’s do not use expiration date.