Paul Ehrlich talks

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A simple thought experiment - two nations side by side. One has the welfare state and one has rule of law and capitalism. Which one thrives and which one implodes?
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Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland haven’t collapsed.
 
Paul Ehrlich is a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. He has never been correct in his opinions/writings. He is a flaming liberal nut job.
 
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Connelly: Whatever I say to them is not going to make a damn bit of difference because parents make their own choices. And when you try to manipulate them, it inevitably leads to pernicious consequences. Look at China, where the government tried to limit people to one child. What happened? People decided that they needed at least one son. So now, in some parts of China, there are 30 to 40 percent more boys than girls. Ehrlich: That’s right, and the Chinese are working hard to change that now. Anne [his co-author and wife] and I went to China, and met in secret with a group of highly educated women. We wanted to see what their attitudes were on the one-child family situation, and every last one of them, within two minutes of our meeting, said it was absolutely the right thing to do. The Chinese government, by the way, is the only government that has connected population numbers to global warming, and pointed out how much they have saved in the way of CO2 emissions by their family-planning policy.
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So…

He went to China with a foregone conclusion about their reproductive laws, then he found a group of women who agree with him, and then asked them questions he knew they would agree with, and concluded that China’s reproductive policies have widespread public support.

David Icke has assembled a group of people in the US who meet in secret to discuss their belief that the world is being secretly run by lizard people who live in the center of the earth.

According to Paul Ehrlich, that would be sufficient, compelling evidence that the entire United States believes in lizard people.
 
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I should also note that “Connelly” in your quote does a good job of explaining how government intervention always produces unexpected consequences.

China used the force of law to “solve” one problem, and ended up creating an entirely new problem complete with its own set of dire consequences, which would have never come about if they hadn’t intervened in the first place.

Rather than learn from their mistake, they’re just going to pass a new set of laws which will inevitably result in the development of a brand new set of unexpected consequences down the road.

And Paul Ehrlich will be there the whole time cheering them on.
 
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