>Ehrlich, it's worth noting, is somewhat of an overpopulation and mass extinction icon. He published "The Population Bomb," one of the first modern books on the

>Ehrlich, it's worth noting, is somewhat of an overpopulation and mass extinction icon. He published "The Population Bomb," one of the first modern books on the dangers of excess human development and population growth, back in 1968, and was considered an alarmist for the controversial predictions he made at the time. Although not all of his contentious forecasts came true, two big ones — that greenhouse gases would melt polar ice, and that humanity would overwhelm the wild — have undoubtedly since materialized. Polar ice isn't the highest recorded, but there's no shortage: https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-cover https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-... "Humanity overwhelming the wild" is a subjective claim, but it looks like wealthier countries are actually getting greener and gaining in wild areas, so it's not about overpopulation but about reducing poverty, which humanity has made great strides in doing in recent generations. Ehrlich has been as wrong as anyone can be yet he still gets coverage at 90 years old.