Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross… — 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… — 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.… — 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
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
Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to… — 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