 It's the doomsayers who are uncaring. You have to get the death rate and birth rate in balance, and there's only two ways to do it. One is to bring the birth rate down, the other is to push the death rate up. Ehrlich even suggested that government should sterilize people to prevent the population from rising. Paul Ehrlich always sees human beings as a problem, destroyers rather than creators. He thinks that human beings are no different to rats or rabbits.