Ehrlich brings up the idea of adding “
temporary sterilants to the water supply or staple foods” and his support for “government mandated sterilisation of Indian males with three or more children”.
Ehrlich did not stop with his dire predictions. Some of them bear repeating just to illustrate how wrong they turned out.
1969: “By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people” and “By 1980 the United States would see life expectancy drop to 42 years because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population would plummet to 22.6 million”.
1970: “In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish” and “Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come. And by the end I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity”.
1971: “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people. If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
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@ those predictions
