This past weekend, a celebrity biologist, known for his spectacularly apocalyptic -- and wrong – environmental predictions of death, destruction and cannibalism, got a favorable interview on "60 Minutes." This resulted in mockery and outrage on Twitter, prompting the biologist in question, Paul Ehrlich, to lash out, tweeting, "I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." He also asserted "no basic" errors.
On Sunday, Ehrlich told "60 Minutes" that "the rate of extinction is extraordinarily high now and getting higher all the time." He added that "humanity is not sustainable."
After the show aired ,Ehrlich complained about the "right-wing" response, demanding, "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones."
Ehrlich is the same scientist that made environmental predictions in 1970 about 1980: "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make…. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years."
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He also insisted that between 1980 and 1989 four billion would die (including 65 million Americans) in the "great die off." None of that happened.
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