Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died
The author of The Population Bomb was never right but never in doubt that the world was about to end.
The author of The Population Bomb was never right but never in doubt that the world was about to end.
A selection of Reason's most incisive articles on population, pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and the ideological environmentalists' penchant for peddling doom.
A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit
"Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest," wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold.
At least in the United States, according to a new study
Restoring up to 2.2 million square miles to nature
It also protects and restores imperiled biodiversity.
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
But economic growth will reverse this trend by sparing lots more land for nature during this century.
A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.
Welcome to Anthropocene Park.
New predictions of animal population doom are likely exaggerated.
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
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