Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes

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• The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
• I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
• The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
• 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 because…
• I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
• By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
• Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide…
• We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
• The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

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