<story><title>Sixth mass extinction: The era of ‘biological annihilation’</title><url>https://www.dlgnaturals.com/blog4/2017/07/11/sixth-mass-extinction-the-era-of-biological-annihilation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jayess</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t Paul Erlich the guy who, in 1968, predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s due to overpopulation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>Close. He said that 4 &lt;i&gt;billion&lt;/i&gt; people would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, including 65 million Americans.&lt;p&gt;Other Ehrlich scenarios (he gets prickly nowadays if you call them &amp;quot;predictions&amp;quot;, as well he might):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Smog disasters&amp;quot; in New York and Los Angeles, claiming of the order of 200,000 lives.&lt;p&gt;U.S. life expectancy falling to 42 years by 1980.&lt;p&gt;All &amp;quot;important animal life&amp;quot; (whatever that means) in the oceans being extinct by 1980.&lt;p&gt;Why anyone still pays attention to this chucklehead is a mystery to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sixth mass extinction: The era of ‘biological annihilation’</title><url>https://www.dlgnaturals.com/blog4/2017/07/11/sixth-mass-extinction-the-era-of-biological-annihilation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jayess</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t Paul Erlich the guy who, in 1968, predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s due to overpopulation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>That didn&amp;#x27;t happen because the green revolution increased agricultural productivity faster than population. That process was just getting started in 1968, and Erlich acknowledged the possibility.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2015-06-01&amp;#x2F;why-paul-ehrlich-s-population-bomb-finally-bombed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;view&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2015-06-01&amp;#x2F;why-paul-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s difficult to imagine a similar possibility for wild populations, short of humans using much less land area.</text></comment>