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Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions

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On 04/22/2018 10:57 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:05:32 -0500, "Byker"  wrote:
>
>> ONE of my favorite pastimes is picking holes in the population
>> panic-mongering of people such as Paul Ehrlich.
>>
>> It’s so easy: dig up any prediction made by these sourpussed baby-fearers
>> 20-odd years ago, contrast it to how things actually turned out, and hey
>> presto, you have hard evidence that Malthusian miserabilists always
>> overstate how bad things are going to get.
>
> Perhaps it's just that a rubber band is elastic - very elastic - until
> it isn't.
>
> I do see your point however. I have a modest collection of books with
> titles like "How to survive he great crash of 19xx". The 60s on into
> the 90s and of course Y2K. Each goes over the same bits financial
> history and theory, moves it 10 years in the future, and gives the
> same classic survival advice.
>
> I guess there is a market. The test would be if the next one out
> really has a new basis or just rehashes to last one with a date slide.
>
>> In his 1968 book The Population Bomb, bible of eco-bellyachers everywhere,
>> he said the planet was about to become so overpopulated that global famine
>> would ensue and millions would die.
>
> Science has done wonders in producing more food per acre and growing
> it on what was worthless land. However. It's at the coast of
> mono-cropping, soil depletion, and aquifer repletion. That rubber band
> you know.
>
>

In the '70s IR8 rice and the 'Green Revolution' saved India. Famine was 
averted but the problem continues:

https://www.indiafoodbanking.org/hunger

Byker must be a devotee of a god who hungers for the greatest possible 
human biomass before he destroys the species.

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Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich’s wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-22 19:05 -0500
  Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich’s wild predictions The brilliant JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-22 19:55 -0700
  Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-22 21:57 -0700
    Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-23 06:33 -0500
      Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions The brilliant JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 07:52 -0700
      Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-23 21:13 -0700
        Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-24 15:32 -0500
    Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-04-23 07:35 -0600
      Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-23 13:44 -0500
        Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions The brilliant JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 13:00 -0700
        Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-04-23 20:00 -0600
          Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions PaxPerPoten <PPP@USA.org> - 2018-04-23 22:11 -0500
            Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-04-23 23:14 -0600
              Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions PaxPerPoten <PPP@USA.org> - 2018-04-24 00:23 -0500
          Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions The brilliant JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-23 20:26 -0700
            Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-24 16:02 -0500
          Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-24 15:15 -0500
            Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions The brilliant JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 21:07 -0700
              Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-25 16:10 -0500
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions JTEM is right <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-25 21:24 -0700
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-26 15:17 -0500
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "M.I.Wakefield" <none@present.com> - 2018-04-26 16:41 -0400
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-27 14:58 -0500
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions JTEM is right <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-26 13:49 -0700
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-27 15:18 -0500
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions JTEM is right <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-27 21:30 -0700
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-30 12:37 -0500
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions JTEM is right <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-30 11:49 -0700
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2018-04-30 14:38 -0500
                Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions JTEM is right <jtem01@gmail.com> - 2018-04-30 15:06 -0700
  Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich’s wild predictions Rudy Canoza <cap@philhendrie.con> - 2018-04-23 12:00 -0700
    Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-23 22:05 -0700
      Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Rudy Canoza <cap@philhendrie.con> - 2018-04-23 22:41 -0700
        Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-24 11:16 -0700
          Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Rudy Canoza <cap@philhendrie.con> - 2018-04-24 11:34 -0700
            Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-24 12:02 -0700
              Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Rudy Canoza <cap@philhendrie.con> - 2018-04-24 12:05 -0700
      Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions "james g. keegan jr." <jgkeegan@gmaîl.con> - 2018-04-23 22:43 -0700
        Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-24 10:32 -0700
    Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Winston_Smith <invalid@butterfly.net> - 2018-04-23 22:31 -0700
      Re: Give yourself a laugh today, pick holes in Ehrlich's wild predictions Rudy Canoza <cap@philhendrie.con> - 2018-04-23 22:39 -0700

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