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.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do,… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Woman should have the choice whether to have an abortion or not, but I like what Bill Clinton said: It ought to… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people. — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people. — 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… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery. — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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