The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. - Paul R. Ehrlich
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
- Paul R. Ehrlich
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. - Paul R. Ehrlich
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people. - Paul R. Ehrlich
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up. - Paul R. Ehrlich
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequalit… - Paul R. Ehrlich
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequalit…
We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's th… - Paul R. Ehrlich
We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's th…
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children - Paul R. Ehrlich
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water. - Paul R. Ehrlich
There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. - Paul R. Ehrlich
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
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