And greetings once again to you music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. Today’s op-ed come to us from The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board on the recent 60 minutes interview with Paul Ehrlich and his latest doomsday prediction. The editorial board notes that his predictions have been famously wrong, but doom springs eternal…(WSJ)
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.