Thread by @AlisonBlunt

1/6 A quote relating to the myth of overpopulation from corbettreport.com/ehrlich/ 6.5.18
"If only Paul Ehrlich was an unsuccessful charlatan, barking his end-of-the-world predictions like a madman on a street corner, it may be possible to dismiss him as a harmless crank."

2/6 "But rather than being shunned as a charlatan, Ehrlich has been embraced by the "respectable" scientific community.
He has been awarded The Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the World Ecology Award from the University of Missouri, ..." ...

3/6 ..."the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, as well as prizes and awards from the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund, the United Nations and a slew of other organizations. He was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship ..." ...

4/6 ..."and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2012. He continues to deliver lectures around the world and is still sought after for comment on population and ecology issues by mainstream media outlets, and he currently holds the position of Bing Professor ..." ...

5/6 ..."of Population Studies of the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
But none of this—not the consistently wrong predictions, not the fearmongering, not the accolades and career success— ..." ...

6/6 ..."is as concerning as Ehrlich’s ultimate “solution” for the “problem” of overpopulation that he claims to detail."

Transcript, video and audio of the whole documentary corbettreport.com/ehrlich/