H. Sterling Burnett, Climate Change Weekly -
Infamous alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich for decades repeatedly warned of India’s demise. In his 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote with smug confidence: “India couldn’t possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980.” In 1975’s The End of Affluence, he wrote: “With luck, India might stagger on to the end of the century, but … the dissolution of India as a viable nation is already in motion.” Despite Ehrlich’s predictions, India is doing just fine, reporting record-level crop yields. That story is repeated all over the world. In fact, despite adding 3.2 billion people to the planet since 1968, global hunger has fallen faster than at any time in human history. READ MORE
