Call for Paul Ehrlich -

Call for Paul Ehrlich - When I was a kid, I was scared out of my little mind by what I heard about the doommongering of professional hysterics like Paul Ehrlich.

Remember Paul Ehrlich? In 1969, he wrote "the Population Bomb", in which he predicted that mankind would starve itself to near extinction, and the survivors would kill each other off searching for food - by about 1984. India, said Ehrlich, was going to be completely hopeless - he introduced the concept of "triage" in an article in 1974, which gave my little 11 year old mind its first big attack of angst.

Of course, he was wrong. Wrong on every count, absolutely and irredeemably. He was so wrong, only a place like Stanford could continue to employ him.

But the predictions keep coming. According to ultraliberal pressure group the World Wildlife Fund (and reported with breathless credulity by the UK's far-left mouthpiece The Guardian), we're going to need to colonize not one but two new, earth-sized planets in the next fifty years, because of all the damage we've done to Earth.

Hey - didn't Ted Danson tell us in 1989 that we had a ten year supply of oil left? You'll recall, of course, the great Indian Food War of 1984...

Why doesn't anyone in the media ever call groups like the World Wildlife Fund on their lousy record at predicting the future?

Bulletin! Bulletin! - Michael Jackson is wierd!

Update! - So is George Michael