Scientist Paul Ehrlich, who has made multiple failed predictions, made yet another apocalyptic prediction Sunday about the future of civilization.
Ehrlich told “60 Minutes” that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
“I know there’s no political will to do any of the things that I’m concerned with, which is exactly why I and the vast majority of my colleagues think we’ve had it; that the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to,” Ehrlich said.
Paul Ehrlich has been making doomsday predictions for decades. In 1968, he wrote “The Population Bomb” which warned of impending disaster if the population was not controlled. He claimed that in the 1970s, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. This led to forced sterilization and other population control measures, including China’s one-child policy.
Ehrlich also made wild predictions that never came true. In 1970, he said that “all important animal life in the sea” would be extinct by 1980. The next year, he bet that England would not even exist by 2000. He also predicted that in 1973, 200,000 people would die in smog disasters in New York and Los Angeles. He even went as far as to say that between 1980 and 1989, four billion people, including 65 million Americans, would die in the “Great Die-Off.”
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“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable. https://t.co/AwaKLZFGsj pic.twitter.com/MU1jHpuMwI
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 2, 2023
Ehrlich’s record of failed predictions is proof that we can’t trust doomsday predictions of the future from this guy. It’s important to remember that past predictions of climate change from all of the dooms-dayers, have been wildly inaccurate.
It’s disturbing that 60 Minutes would use Ehrlich to push their doomsday narrative but not surprising. The network has taken a hard left turn over the years to maintain viewership by singling out its base.
It’s dissapointing at this point that they have so much influence over the few viewers that they still have.
