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In 2024, Elon Musk called Paul Ehrlich “a terrible human being” whose “books have done great damage to humanity.” “I noticed this more than 20 years ago, but birthrate trends in countries that pass a certain level of economic development were falling well below replacement — if they weren’t...

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Paul Ehrlich: the most damaging intellectual of the late 20th century Few individuals have done more to distort Western thinking on civilization, progress, and human flourishing than Paul Ehrlich. His central thesis was that the Earth was dangerously overpopulated, and that continued population growth would make famine, plague, and war not only inevitable but imminent. In 1970, he issued a string of apocalyptic predictions (none of which came true): >Starvation would surge worldwide and become the new normal >The United States faced imminent famine driven by climate and weather shifts >A global plague would devastate humanity >Rising population and pollution would dramatically increase the odds of thermonuclear war >Basic arithmetic showed the world could not possibly reach 7 billion people by 2000 >Society would pass the point of no return after 1972 Every major forecast collapsed. Global population soared past 7 billion, yet per-capita food production rose, extreme poverty plummeted, and life expectancy increased. Yet the overpopulation myth he popularized never died. That is the real tragedy. Because the idea survived, governments and institutions continue to shape policy around it, often with coercive population control measures, anti-natalist cultural messaging, and hostility to human flourishing. Policies built on false premises rarely end well. They tend to produce exactly the kind of stagnation and misery their architects claimed to prevent. Paul Ehrlich belongs in the dustbin of history. The sooner his intellectual legacy is discarded, the better.

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ELON: EARTH IS NOT OVERPOPULATED—IT’S UNDERPOPULATED “A lot of people believe that the Earth can't sustain this level of human population, which is utterly untrue. It may seem in a crowded city that there are a lot of people, but actually, if you look down on an airplane and you say, look down, am I over a person? When you're on an airplane, the answer is no 99.9% of the time. All of the humans on Earth can fit on one floor in the city of New York. The cross sectional area of all humans, 8 billion humans, is small. So, we have this totally wrong idea that the Earth is overpopulated, when in fact it is underpopulated. We're starting to see pro-natalist politicians like Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni, and hopefully more as time goes by. These have to translate into actual actions that change the birth rate or it doesn't matter. And so far, I've not seen any country making a meaningful dent in the birth rate. I would change the education system so that people are stopped being taught that we're overpopulated. A lot of it comes from this insane misanthropic book that Paul Ehrlich wrote, The Population Bomb. I hope he burns in hell that guy, seriously. The Earth can absolutely sustain its population. We could double or triple the population. There's a professor I was talking to at Oxford, his math says we could 10x the population without destroying the Amazon rainforest or anything terrible. I think we should expand the human population and increase the scope and scale of consciousness so we can better understand the nature of this universe, this wonderful universe and all the amazing things that exist. We need to stop teaching people false propaganda that the Earth is overpopulated.” Source: Elon Musk, Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 2024

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ELON: EARTH IS NOT OVERPOPULATED - IT’S UNDERPOPULATED “A lot of people believe that the Earth can't sustain this level of human population, which is utterly untrue. It may seem in a crowded city that there are a lot of people, but actually, if you look down on an airplane and you say, look down, am I over a person? When you're on an airplane, the answer is no 99.9% of the time. All of the humans on Earth can fit on one floor in the city of New York. The cross-sectional area of all humans, 8 billion humans, is small. So, we have this totally wrong idea that the Earth is overpopulated, when in fact it is underpopulated. We're starting to see pro-natalist politicians like Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni, and hopefully more as time goes by. These have to translate into actual actions that change the birth rate or it doesn't matter. And so far, I've not seen any country making a meaningful dent in the birth rate. I would change the education system so that people are stopped being taught that we're overpopulated. A lot of it comes from this insane misanthropic book that Paul Ehrlich wrote, The Population Bomb. I hope he burns in hell that guy, seriously. The Earth can absolutely sustain its population. We could double or triple the population. There's a professor I was talking to at Oxford, his math says we could 10x the population without destroying the Amazon rainforest or anything terrible. I think we should expand the human population and increase the scope and scale of consciousness so we can better understand the nature of this universe, this wonderful universe and all the amazing things that exist. We need to stop teaching people false propaganda that the Earth is overpopulated.” Source: Elon Musk, Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 2024

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