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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> There are too many people on the
> > planet..unsustainable...of course, we all agree there, I think.
>
> I'd have sworn that's what they were saying 30 years ago..

Paul Ehrlich started talking and writing about human overpopulation  
and predicting subsequent famine and other disasters in the mid- 
sixties. He persists today. His predictions proved overly dire. Which  
is to say, he predicted massive starvation in the seventies and  
eighties which of course did not occur. Later derided for being  
overly pessimistic he said he had presented, not predictions, but  
scenarios.

He may well have stretched the model, but he has served the useful  
purpose of getting people thinking about what growing human  
population will do to Earth. That agricultural advances have staved  
off massive starvation does not hide the fact that homo sapiens is  
destroying its habitat.