Author: Paul R. Ehrlich
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-WIKIPEDIA: Paul R. Ehrlich - - - - -ESSAY: The Nonsense Explosion (Ben Wattenberg, 1970, New Republic) -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) -OBIT: Paul Ehrlich obituary: author who predicted mass hunger: Biologist whose alarming claims of widespread famines and mass starvation in his book The Population Bomb won him notoriety dies aged 93 (Times uk, March 18 2026) -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) -ESSAY: Death of a Charlatan: Paul Ehrlich was a useful idiot, a facile clown. (Scott McKay, March 18, 2026, American Spectator) -ESSAY: The Horrific Legacy of Paul Ehrlich: The apocalyptic professor who was wrong about almost everything, and still managed to change the world. (Aubrey Harris, March 18, 2026, Ameriican Spectator) -ESSAY: Putting Ehrlich’s bad ideas in perspective (Mitch Kokai, March 19, 2026, Locke Foundation) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich Was Always Wrong, Never in Doubt (Jason L Riley, 3/19/26, Wall Street Journal) -ESSAY: The Lasting Damage of Paul Ehrlich’s Pessimism: He lived long enough to see how wrong his predictions were, but never changed his beliefs. (Jonah Goldberg, 3/19/26, The Dispatch) -ESSAY:The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation: ‘The Population Bomb’ made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world (Charles C. Mann, January 2018, Smithsonian) -ESSAY: Paul Ehrlich, Estimated Prophet: The modern Malthusian had conviction, if nothing else. (Theodore Dalrymple, Mar 22, 2026, American Spectator) -ESSAY: The Bomb That Never Went Off: Paul R. Ehrlich’s population bomb never exploded. Understanding why he was so wrong—and why it mattered so much—tells us more about ideology than demography. (LEO and Kaiser Bauchm Mar 22, 2026m Letters from Leo) - - - - - The Population Bomb (1968) - Paul Ehrlich (5/29/1932
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