PaulErlich http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7445/all en 'Population Expert' Paul Ehrlich? http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/population-expert-paul-ehrlich <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> An obituary for an alarmist climatologist refers to Erlich, author of the hysterical, now-discredited tome &quot;The Population Bomb,&quot; as a population expert. In his 1968 book Ehrlich called for the government to take immediate action to control population in order to prevent mass starvation in America. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>How absolutely and totally wrong do your predictions have to be before the media stops calling you an "expert" in your field? The Times laid down a marker in its deeply sympathetic <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/earth/20schneider.html?scp=2&amp;sq=stephen%20schneider&amp;st=cse">Tuesday obituary</a> for alarmist climatologist Stephen Schneider, in which writer Douglas Martin identified Paul Ehrlich as a "biologist and population expert." <br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/population-expert-paul-ehrlich" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch DouglaMartin Gaffes liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias PaulErlich PopulationBomb StephenSchneider TimesWatch Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:44:00 +0000 admin 7718 at http://archive2.mrc.org Psychology Today Blog: Ban Having Children for 5 Years http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/psychology-today-blog-ban-having-children-5-years <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/erin-brown">Erin Brown</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <div class="field-label-inline"> By</div> <a href="/author/matt-philbin">Matt Philbin</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>“STOP HAVING CHILDREN.” Popular author Steven Kotler has <a href="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-playing-field/200902/the-five-year-ban-because-a-billion-less-people-is-a-great-place-to-st" />declared</a> that responsible adults should stop having children in order to save the planet. Those who are having kids, are being selfish and stealing from the future, the rest of humanity, and “every living thing on the earth,” he wrote. Have too many kids and you should go to jail.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/psychology-today-blog-ban-having-children-5-years" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Life childbearing moratorium murder NadyaSulamen octuplets Overpopulation PaulErlich PaulWatson PopulationBomb populationgrowth PsychologyToday SeaShepherdSociety sterilization STevenKotler ThePlayingField ThomasMalthus Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000 admin 28768 at http://archive2.mrc.org