All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.
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.
- Paul R. Ehrlich
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.
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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