I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system,… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
Woman should have the choice whether to have an abortion or not, but I like what Bill Clinton said: It ought to be safe… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
