In a speech on climate change last week, the vice president seemed to endorse population reduction; that was taken as a gaffe by many but the Jersey guy who wrote the book 'The Population Bomb' preferred the speech as given.
A wise man once said that a gaffe is what happens when a politician accidentally gets caught telling the truth,on climate change in Baltimore.
“This is super-important, and its exactly the thing idiots hate because they don’t have a clue how the world works,” Ehrlich said.That’s certainly true. But when that book came out, Ehrlich got a lot of flack from both right and left. Some of his gloomier warnings failed to come to fruition, such as his 1968 prediction that “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.
The population question has been kicked around in California since before Ehrlich’s book came out. In 1966, Sierra Club Executive Director But the bigger question concerns population growth overseas. Ehrlich is among many scientists who argue that population growth in countries such as India and China will negate any efforts Americans make to combat climate change.
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