On Sunday, scientist Paul Ehrlich, who has a history of making inaccurate predictions, made another forecast about the future of civilization.
He suggested that our world is facing a bleak future with dire consequences. His previous forecasts haven’t been accurate, yet his new warning has caused alarm among many.
Ehrlich told “60 Minutes” that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
“I know there’s no political will to do any of the things that I’m concerned with, which is exactly why I and the vast majority of my colleagues think we’ve had it; that the next few daces will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to,” Ehrlich said.
For decades, Paul Ehrlich has been predicting the end of the world, making multiple, wild predictions that never came true. One of his most famous works is the book “The Population Bomb”, where he suggested that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s, leading to extreme population control measures, such as China’s one-child policy.
Ehrlich also made numerous erroneous predictions that never came true, such as saying that “all important animal life in the sea” would be extinct by 1980, and that England would not exist by 2000. He even went as far as to say that between 1980 and 1989, four billion people, including 65 million Americans, would die in the “Great Die-Off”.
It’s clear that the failed predictions of Ehrlich should not be trusted, and that doomsday predictions of the future should be taken with a grain of salt. Climate change predictions made by doomsayers like Ehrlich have been notoriously inaccurate and wrong, and thus should not be taken as gospel but media nuts keep using them to terrorize the people.
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“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable. https://t.co/AwaKLZFGsj pic.twitter.com/MU1jHpuMwI
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 2, 2023
Ehrlich’s failed predictions are evidence that it’s not wise to take his predictions seriously. In a world where media outlets like 60 Minutes have so much influence, it’s important to take into account the lack of accuracy of predictions like Ehrlich’s.