Why do we keep listening to so called “experts” who have been proven wrong time and time again?
In most cases, it’s because of the media.
The media continues to push these narratives onto the public using discredited science.
This time, it appeared to happen on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
They promoted a Stanford University scientist by the name of Paul Ehrlich.
Now, here’s the problem with Ehrlich.
He’s most famous for his prediction in the 70s that “global cooling” would cause billions on earth to die.
As we all know, that “global cooling” was later renamed “global warming,” which was later renamed “climate change.”
His prediction never came true.
Yet, CBS promoted his claim that “humanity is not sustainable.”
He even said that we would need “five Earths” in order to survive.
See below:
In 2020, "60 minutes" cut off Trump when he tried to say something true. CBS claimed, "we can't verify" the Hunter Biden laptop, a bald-faced lie.
On Sunday, "60 Minutes" let Paul Ehrlich make multiple false claims that not only can't be verified but can be debunked in minutes. pic.twitter.com/cXMMJnRoeq
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 4, 2023
“Paul Ehrlich… shows there's something corrupt and unscientific about this movement. It's not self-correcting, it's the opposite. He gets it totally wrong and it claims validation and is totally unapologetic.”
With @michaeljknowles pic.twitter.com/YfhNOsIGJA
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) July 16, 2022
Paul Ehrlich has been so consistently wrong on so many things. pic.twitter.com/RMgeaRB5GL
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) January 3, 2023
"You oughta make the FCC see to it that large families are always treated in a negative light on television."
"the government will simply tell you how many children you can have and throw you in jail if you have too many"
CBS darling Paul Ehrlich in 1970pic.twitter.com/tRtT0yTGI1
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 4, 2023
Paul Ehrlich has been wrong on so many things.
His most dire predictions came nowhere close to happening.
So why does CBS give him so much air time?
The National Review confirms that Ehrlich has been repeatedly debunked and proven wrong:
Paul Ehrlich, who predicted that mass starvation would wipe out humanity decades ago, was invited to appear on an episode of 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night to revive his argument that current levels of human consumption will lead to the mass extinction of plants, animals, and mankind itself — echoing the case he first made in his since discredited 1968 book The Population Bomb.
Ehrlich is a Stanford University biology professor best known for predicting that a global famine driven by overpopulation would all but wipe out human civilization in the 1970’s. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970’s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death…nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate,” Ehrlich and his co-author and wife warned readers in the book’s introduction.
Despite the infamous blunder, which resulted from Ehrlich’s failure to account for the revolution in agricultural technology that occurred in the decades after he published his wildly popular book, he maintains that his arguments were broadly correct.
“I do not think my language was too apocalyptic in The Population Bomb. My language would be even more apocalyptic today,” Ehrlich told Retro Report in 2015.
The timing was even more suspicious.
Why?
Because CBS aired this interview on New Year’s Day.
In other words, this is how they wanted to ring in 2023.
Charming and inspiring, right?
According to Fox News:
CBS rang in the new year Sunday night with “The Population Bomb” author and biologist Paul Ehrlich continuing to warn Americans about the threat of “mass extinction” on “60 Minutes.”
Journalist Scott Pelley spoke with Ehrlich on the subject of sustainability as Ehrlich repeated his claims that humanity is no longer sustainable as a species due to our increasingly high population.
“The rate of extinction is extraordinarily high now and getting higher all the time,” Ehrlich said.
He explained, “Humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths. Not clear where they’re gonna come from.”
His predictions have been famously wrong, so why entertain him with screen time?
Isn’t that the very definition of misinformation?
Let me tell you the truth: if he were affiliated with the Right in any way, shape, or form, he would have already been banned from social media!
On CBS "60 Minutes," biologist Paul Ehrlich claimed global warming would result in mass famine
But archival footage shows Ehrlich claimed global *cooling* would result in famine in the 1970s
His goal has always been to shut down the oil & gas industryhttps://t.co/38w4FrpzRF
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 3, 2023
Why is @60Minutes featuring Paul Ehrlich, the anti-human ecologist who has been 180° wrong for 55 years??!!
“humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you'd need 5 more Earths.”
More on Ehrlich’s catastrophizing
👇 pic.twitter.com/q6daPn8LGJ— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
https://twitter.com/Never_Alt_Left/status/1610717444615569408
Unfortunately, there are still millions of Americans who trust the mainstream media.
There are millions of Americans who don’t question the content they consume.
This means that apparent misinformation is allowed to be spread under the guise of an “expert.”
The Wall Street Journal provides more analysis:
We’ll say this for Paul Ehrlich—at least he’s consistent. In 1968 the Stanford biologist famously declared that “the battle to feed all humanity is over,” at a time when the earth’s population was about 3.5 billion. Today we have a population of eight billion (better fed than ever), yet there was Mr. Ehrlich, on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, still predicting that “humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we’re sawing off.”
The CBS narrator acknowledged that the green revolution in agriculture disproved Mr. Ehrlich’s prediction of mass famine. But the show went on to suggest that Mr. Ehrlich’s repackaged gloom about melting icecaps and the rate of extinction may finally prove him right in saying we are still heading the way of the dinosaurs.
As with Thomas Malthus, the father of doom-and-gloomers, the repeated failures of Mr. Ehrlich’s predictions of catastrophe to materialize never seem to discourage those who believe human beings are breeding and consuming our way to destruction.
The reason these dire prophecies fail is that they ignore the most decisive variable: human ingenuity. In the years since Mr. Ehrlich first forecast apocalypse, human beings have found untold new ways to improve life on earth—e.g., by reclaiming arable land, inventing new medicines, increasing food production, making clean water more available and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
So what do you think about Ehlrich?
Do you agree with his assessment?
Or is this just part of the movement to push the New Green Deal on all of us?
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