There seems to be a subculture out there of people trying to mentally erase Ehrlich’s ludicrous predictions. No matter how many original books, magazines and newspaper articles they are presented from the time period, they refuse to accept the truth.
Walter Williams wrote a column a dozen years ago in which he made some wild claims about Stanford population biologist Paul Ehrlich.
Recently Williams revived that claim for another column, and the revived claim is all over conservative sites.
Steven Goddard, who appears to be making a living on screwing up references to the work of others, though had restricted most of his error to sciency issues like climate change denial, put up a post repeating Williams’ claim.
I imagined Ehrlich might have said something like that, but most likely in one of his “scenarios” like the three much different disaster scenarios he proposed in his 1968 book Population Bomb. …
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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