Paul R. Ehrlich

We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

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

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

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

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

I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

— Paul R. Ehrlich

“Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

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