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the exact things Ehrlich and his colleagues would like to prevent
EDIT- from the horse's mouth:
- If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000
- giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun
- Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future
- Technology does nothing to solve problems of biodiversity or living space or arable cropland
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich
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the exact things Ehrlich and his colleagues would like to prevent
EDIT- from the horse's mouth:
- If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000
- giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun
- Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future
- Technology does nothing to solve problems of biodiversity or living space or arable cropland
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich