SPOTLIGHT: Saving the world = demonizing alternative visions.
BIG PICTURE: On page 181 of his bestseller, The Population Bomb, “qualified scientist” Paul Ehrlich told readers: “if you really want to survive, start writing!”
But it wasn’t sufficient for these individuals to express their concerns to elected officials and newspaper editors. Instead, the biologist urged his readers to chase other points-of-view off the stage.
Those who didn’t kowtow to his hardline analysis should be economically harmed via boycotts. Television and radio programming involving families of three-plus offspring should be maligned as offensive and irresponsible. No other considerations – artistic, legal, moral – mattered.
We now know that Ehrlich was profoundly mistaken about how the future would unfold. But 50 years ago, his sanctimony knew few bounds. Intolerance was the name of his game. He urged readers to:
Complain bitterly about any positive treatment of large families. Attack the publicizing of “mothers of the year” unless they have no more than two children or have adopted extra ones. Request that the publications you address stop carrying any advertising implying by statement or inferencethat it is socially acceptable to have more than two children. (pp. 179-180, my italics)
Ehrlich urged citizens “who do not want to see our way of life destroyed by the population explosion,” to form action groups, whose members should
Put together a blacklist of people, companies, and organizations impeding population control…and go to work on them. Organize boycotts of products of guilty companies. Work for the opponents of guilty politicians. (p. 182)
Television shows featuring large families, he said,
should be assailed…Raise a fuss whenever programming or commercials promote reproductive irresponsibility…Those producing offensive advertisements or advertising during offensive television programs should be threatened with boycott…The day is upon us when we can no longer tolerate television programs that feature large families as if they still represented acceptable behavior on the part of parents. (p.180, my italics)
Let me repeat those words: we can no longer tolerate [thought crimes].
TOP TAKEAWAY: The 1960s ethos of ‘live and let live’ had no claim on Ehrlich’s soul. This scientist thought anyone who didn’t buy into his hysteria deserved to have their artistic and political careers destroyed.
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He and his supporters can sacrifice themselves to save the world first. Set the example. Show the rest of us how it’s done.
Ehrlich with age has only gotten to be more of a total idiot some 50 years after writing his fake book THE POPULATION BOMB him as well as Al Bore,Leonardo DiCaprio,David Suzuki and the rest of the Eco-Wackos need to be stranded on some distant planet just like in Lost In Space only without any shelter
Your only as credible as your predictions were accurate Paullie… So zero.
Ehrlich is so yesterday.
Suzuki says have as many kids as you want, just bind their feet so they leave itty bitty foot prints.
What they secretly hate is conservatives raising little capitalist consumers.
A new liberal Eco-Wacko TV series THE SCREWBALLS about a group who move to the Jungle to live lasts only a month because they all get eaten by wild creatures last one a real back to nature wacko a total vegan and bicycle rider gets nailed by a Harpy Eagle and ends up as lunch for a eaglet Burp
Large families are what ?!
And when will these communist pigs tell
The welfare aristocracy that ?!
Who are given incentive payments
TO BREED !
Be fruitful and multiply —-fill the earth
With WHAT ?!