Demand Quote by 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 principles of…

— 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. People make…

— 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 educational system,…

— 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 be evacuated…

— 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 could predict…

— 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, although too…

— 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 be getting…

— 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 economic inequality.…

— 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 should now…

— 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 we can…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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