what evidence? "in 1968, Ehrlich warned of imminent population explosion and hundreds of millions of people starving to death"
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Food has never been more abundant, plentiful and inexpensive https://www.wfdd.org/story/food-growing-more-plentiful-so-wh...
Pardon me for ignoring what this fear monger and crackpot has to say.
And due to advances in agricultural technology, since the Population Bomb book was published, global population has doubled while hunger has greatly diminished.
So wouldn’t the answer be more technology & wealth, not less?
the exact things Ehrlich and his colleagues would like to prevent
EDIT- from the horse's mouth:
- If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000
- giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun
- Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future
- Technology does nothing to solve problems of biodiversity or living space or arable cropland
People who don't know insist too that Y2K was a big nothing, but it was nothing only because of $billions spent to ensure that it would be.
People who don't know say the same about whales, acid rain and stratospheric ozone. Same thing: global effort, crisis reduced, although further effort needed.
2038 still looms, but much has been done already.
The thing is although we now we can often figure out solutions when the problems become more apparent, we can't guarantee it - so it makes sense to start working on solutions as soon as possible.
fixed it for you