It's way worse--or funnier--than that. From Wikipedia: """On the first Earth Day in 1970, he warned that "[i]n ten years all important animal life in the sea

It's way worse--or funnier--than that. From Wikipedia: """On the first Earth Day in 1970, he warned that "[i]n ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish."[5] In a 1971 speech, he predicted that: "By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people." "If I were a gambler" Professor Ehrlich concluded before boarding his plane, " I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."[5] When this scenario did not come to pass, he responded that "When you predict the future, you get things wrong. How wrong is another question. I would have lost if I had had taken the bet. However, if you look closely at England, what can I tell you? They're having all kinds of problems, just like everybody else.""" That last bit is all he should have said: that people and places will be having problems, just like everyone else, just like has always been the case, just like always will be. Why are people still paying attention to anything he says? "...understand something...salary...depends on it...", you know how it goes.