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Attention seeker predicts doom, media laps it up. Nothing new there.
By Tim Graham ~
Chalk this up as 60 Minutes hosting the worst peddler of false knowledge since Dan Rather left the set.
CBS kicked off 2023 by touting “mass extinction” blather by Paul Ehrlich, the guy who’s been peddling radical and misanthropic eco-garbage since his book The Population Bomb in 1968.
That screed began: “The battle to feed all humanity is over. In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines–hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”
This may qualify as the drop-dead dumbest announcement of the Sixties and should have disqualified him from the status of Expert by the end of the 1970s. But the left-wing media never tire of him. They can’t get enough of this ecological self-loathing. The human race is always a pestilence on the planet.
Pelley led off the show with Ehrlich…
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I see the club of Rome are still at it presenting their stupid ideas. They seem to think that mankind can’t think or improve things. First it was that we would all starve to death if the population exceeded that number but the farmers just got down to it and produced more food and now the WEF is trying to stop farmers producing food by restricting fertiliser and shutting down farms.
If they are so worried why don’t they show the way by leading the way to the death camps?
Why does anyone watch 60 minutes? I quit 30 yrs ago, which was not soon enough. A person with macular degeneration can see through the propaganda. I expect there’s a large amount of preaching to the choir.
Ehrlich has been claiming on Twitter that he is actually always right because his papers have been peer reviewed and he’s been given awards. He is an utter clown, a narcissist of the highest order who somehow thinks his failed predictions didn’t fail. That he thinks peer review can prove forecasts of the future are right is beyond parody!
I actually heard him in a lecture at University in the late 60’s. Obviously a believer in Malthus.
Among other things he claimed that the world could not support 2.5 billion people, that food would run out and there would be cannibals roaming the Mid West USA. And the old perennial “Oil would run out soon” (I think by 1979).
…Hmm, but I’m beginnning to wonder about what’s in the water ( and food – well we already have an idea about some of it) and as for food scarcity, … Seems the UK farmers are too keen on the flavour of the Gravy train to take much notice of wher they’re heading going by today’s Eco news. Oh and Scotland had ave temp of 8.5C last year. Wonder where that was ? and did they measure data from zero hours @ 1/1/year or some other time? Averages are like Percents – no sense unless you know the full set. We’ve had little wind today and the darkest day this year ( candles on ) and STV told us about a report to stop oil drilling ASAP and go Eco. was it repeated on ITV news ?
saighdear – don’t know about ITV, but it seems Scottish Greens prefer Russian oil?
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/shetland-rosebank-oil-field-twice-size-of-cambo-would-be-environmental-disaster-greens-warn
The link below deals with causation regarding the issues put forward in the 60-minutes episode. It’s only one page that explains two charts. Please take a moment to read it.
https://wp.me/p6IbpI-1I6
Thank you.
Ron Messick
Paul Ehrlich and the madness of climate alarmists
His prophecies of eco-doom have been proven wrong time and again – why is he still taken seriously?
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CBS’s rehabilitation of Paul Ehrlich speaks to a shocking lapse in journalistic standards when it comes to the environment. The media will go to any lengths to promote the dubious narrative of ecological collapse – even if that means discarding the facts and uncritically promoting the most discredited of voices.
Humanity is not the plague on the Earth that Ehrlich and the media would have us believe.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/10/paul-ehrlich-and-the-madness-of-climate-alarmists/