The End of the Population Explosion?
Ron Brunton
Institute of Public Affairs [Australia]
One of the best reasons for ignoring the doomsayers is their spectacular record of failed predictions, which shows that they really don’t understand how the world really works.
Thirty years ago, Paul Ehrlich predicted that pesticide-induced cancers would soon cause life expectancy in the United States to plummet to 42 years. It is now around 76 years. He also told British biologists, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”