ON THE DEATH OF PAUL EHRLICH---HOW THE MEDIA PUSHED THE POPULATION BOMB SHAM FOR DECADES

Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at decades of media fawning over “population scientist” Paul Ehrlich, and we cover more media misses.

How the Media Helped Traffic in The Population Bomb Lie

Paul Ehrlich died Monday, nearly 60 years after he published his book The Population Bomb, ushering in a wave of mass hysteria over the imagined consequences of overpopulation that persists to this day.Ehrlich warned in the 1968 book that overpopulation would lead to “mass starvation” on a “dying planet.”

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” he warned in the book’s opening sentence, declaring that humanity had lost. He predicted “hundreds of millions of people” would starve to death in the 1970s.

Of course, his predictions fell flat....MORE AT The Population Bomb Myth: How the Media Pushed Paul Ehrlich’s False Predictions | National Review