Like all false prophets shaking their fist at the sky, his gimmick is a type of fear that only has to last long enough for a coin to leave a passerby’s hand – or in this case, a book to fly into someone’s online shopping cart.
Far from admitting defeat when humanity stubbornly failed to collapse, Ehrlich is back ranting that the next few decades of history ‘will be the end of the kind of civilisation we’re used to’. His proclamations were eagerly repeated by media organisations addicted to calamitous clickbait.
‘For the entire planet you’d need five more Earths, [it’s] not clear where they’re going to come from’ because humanity is ‘feasting on resources’.
A fine collection of red pills again proving that fear is a powerful weapon.
Worth reading in full.