From Samzidata, a brutal, but very wise, operating principle:
As a less scientific but still useful, rough rule of thumb on demographic matters, I would recommend taking any prediction made by Paul Erlich in the first half of the 1970s and assuming the precise opposite has happened since.
In a just world, Paul Ehrlich would be spit on in the street… by the Left. And when he eventually gets around to dying, it is my devout hope that his body is rendered down into fertilizer and used to germinate a crop of genetically modified wheat for a Third World subsistence farmer*. At least that way Ehrlich would have done one useful thing in his existence…
Sorry. I have a real problem with ‘activists’ who are willing to slowly murder any number of brown people necessary to achieve said activists’ domestic policy goals.
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
*Don’t worry, it’d be safe to use: once the soul departs the body, what’s left is blameless organic matter. Evil doesn’t linger.
Marinate the remains in DDT for a while first, Moe.
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Just sayin’
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Mew
In a just world, Norman Borlaug’s non-corporeal form would e’er trail Ehrlich, ghost-ishly intoning “SCOOOOORE-BOOOARD! SCOOOOORE-BOOOOARD!”
Nah. Norman would have better things to do with his afterlife.
The man lived a long, productive and full life. Give him some time to gloat.
Friggin Neo-Malthusians that should be done to all of the ant-farm types. I’d use another word but this is a family friendly blog.
I’m surprised you didn’t touch upon the John Holdren (Obama Science Czar) connection. Seems like a big fat political softball laid up on a tee and you didn’t even take a cut at it.
Ehrlich’s grave will be quite fertile, but I fear it will be waterlogged for decades.