Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Paul Ehrlich is Dead, but His Anti-life Legacy Lives

On Friday, March 13, Paul Ehrlich – Stanford biologist, celebrity doomsayer, and author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb – died at 93 in Palo Alto, California.

In their obituary, the New York Times described Ehrlich as “an eminent ecologist and population scientist” whose predictions were merely “premature.” Which is surely one of the gentlest ways imaginable of saying that Ehrlich was so utterly wrong on everything, that it’s impossible to think of a single thing he got right.

The Conversation hailed Ehrlich as a visionary who “believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out.” William Kovarik, the author of the piece, goes on to describe Ehrlich’s death as “a loss for a world that needs visionaries and public scientists now more than ever.”

The record tells a different story. …

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