I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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