Author: Paul R. Ehrlich
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-WIKIPEDIA: Paul R. Ehrlich - - - - - -OBIT: Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93: His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature. (Keith Schneider, March 15, 2026, NY Times) -OBIT: Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died: The author of The Population Bomb was never right but never in doubt that the world was about to end. (Ronald Bailey, 3.16.2026, reason) -TRIBUTE: Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out (William J. (Bill) Kovarik, March 16, 2026, The Conversation) - -ESSAY: America's worst public intellectual, RIP: How Paul Ehrlich’s population panic helped shape a half-century of pessimism about technology, growth, and humanity's future on Earth James Pethokoukis, Mar 16, 2026, Faster, Please! -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich’s bad ideas won’t go away (Ross Clark, March 16, 2026, The Spectator) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ Was Worse Than a Dud: He not only got it spectacularly wrong, his alarmism had tragic consequences. (Jack Butler, March 17, 2026, Wall Street journal) -ESSAY: The Media's Overpopulation Panic (Peter Suderman | 3.17.2026, reason) -ESSAY: How the Media Pushed The Population Bomb Sham for Decades — and Misled Generations (Brittany Bernstein, March 17, 2026, National Review) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich’s Disastrous Legacy (Noah Rothman, March 16, 2026, National Review) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich Was Wrong—but He Still Changed the World: The ‘Population Bomb’ author advocated forced sterilization to curb global growth. And he died believing he was right. (Matt Ridley, 03.17.26, The Free Press) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich Was Wrong About Everything: The late ‘population scientist’ would have benefited from a little epistemic humility. (Kevin D. Williamson, March 17, 2026, The Dispatch) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich Helped Create Roe v. Wade: Justice Blackmun echoed the Population Bomb's concerns about "population growth," and Ehrlich thought Roe supported "compulsory abortion." (Josh Blackman, 3.17.2026, reason) - - - - - - The Population Bomb (1968) - Paul Ehrlich (5/29/1932
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