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NYT, of course, says he was criticized because his predictions were "premature."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books/paul-r-ehrlich-dead.html

Excerpt:

In 1980, Julian Simon, an economist at the University of Maryland,
challenged Dr. Ehrlich and two of his colleagues with what Stewart
Brand, a founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, called "one of the
great revelatory bets."

Convinced that the growing population would make natural resources
ever more scarce and thus drive up costs, Dr. Ehrlich accepted Mr.
Simon's challenge, betting that the prices of five key metals
would rise in the 1980s. Mr. Simon believed that innovation would
drive prices down.

In 1990, Dr. Ehrlich and his colleagues conceded defeat and sent
Mr. Simon a check for $576.07 -- an amount that represented the
decline in the metals' prices after accounting for inflation.

The disclosure of the bet came amid a national backlash to
American environmentalism in the early 1990s, led by people who
had the ability to read, think critically, and understand that
science requires testing of hypotheses rather than blind
acceptance.

Oh, wait, that last part isn't exactly what the Times published. The
original read:

[...] led by free-market conservatives and industrial executives
who questioned the movement's scientific data.
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J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

NYT, of course, says he was criticized because his predictions were "premature."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books/paul-r-ehrlich-dead.html

https://x.com/Ogiel23/status/2033552164958638163

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.

He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from
1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800
kcal (a 22% increase).
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In <10p9fe7$ost$3@reader2.panix.com> Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> writes:

J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

NYT, of course, says he was criticized because his predictions were
"premature."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books/paul-r-ehrlich-dead.html

https://x.com/Ogiel23/status/2033552164958638163

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.

He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from
1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800
kcal (a 22% increase).

yabbut, if you remove Texian Bar B Que from the diet...
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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

yabbut, if you remove Texian Bar B Que from the diet...

First: it's BBQ, not "Bar B Que."
Second: redundant. If it's not Texan, it's not BBQ.
ObObits: J|+rgen Habermas, 96.
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J.D. Baldwin <news@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:

NYT, of course, says he was criticized because his predictions were >"premature."

It took me a while to realize this was about some economist and not about
the guy who cured syphillis.
--scott
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Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

yabbut, if you remove Texian Bar B Que from the diet...

First: it's BBQ, not "Bar B Que."

Second: redundant. If it's not Texan, it's not BBQ.

Don't try saying that in the Carolinas.

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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

NYT, of course, says he was criticized because his predictions were
"premature."

The sun'll go out on doomsday,
bet your bottom dollar that on doomsday,
'twill be gone,
oh doomsday,oh doomsday,
I'm scared of ya doomsday,
you're always a day away!


(Well,Ehrlich's wife WAS named Anne,
and she stands by what they wrote,
but I don't think she was an orphan).

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/books/paul-r-ehrlich-dead.html

https://x.com/Ogiel23/status/2033552164958638163

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.

He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from
1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800
kcal (a 22% increase).

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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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In article <10ppsht$e7p$2@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:

Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

yabbut, if you remove Texian Bar B Que from the diet...

First: it's BBQ, not "Bar B Que."

Second: redundant. If it's not Texan, it's not BBQ.

Don't try saying that in the Carolinas.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:

Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

yabbut, if you remove Texian Bar B Que from the diet...

First: it's BBQ, not "Bar B Que."

Second: redundant. If it's not Texan, it's not BBQ.

Don't try saying that in the Carolinas.

Pork boiled in vinegar is not BBQ.
--scott
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