Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich wrote the prominent book The Population Bomb, whose failed predictions about overpopulation led to devastating policy consequences across the planet.[1] The Population Connection was created in 1968 based on Paul Ehrlich's predictions.
Paul Ehrlich is married to Anne Ehrlich.
Anti-Apartheid
A statement denouncing the presence of ford Motor Company in South Africa was read May 12 1977 at the Ford Motor Company annual stockholders' meeting in Detroit. The statement was read on behalf of the Stanford Committee for a Responsible Investment Policy (SCRIP) and the 294 protesters arrested on Monday, according to Nick Nyhart. SCRIP member. The statement urges all stockholders to vote for the proxy which mandates the withdrawal of Ford from South Alrica and states in part. ". . . we will continue in our actions until the Ford Motor Company is out of South Africa, or Stanford University has divested itself of its Ford stock. . . . We will persist and we will win." SCRIP also sent a telegram to the president of Ford early that day. It described campus opposition to the Hoard of Trustees abstention and promised further efforts here to get l ord to withdraw from South Africa. It also called for a more responsibl 'Diversity investment policy. In related developments: —The Senate of the Associated Students of the University ol California (ASUC) late last night nearly passed unanimously a resolution conveying its "support ol the ideals of SCRIP".
Support for those protesting South African investments here has resulted in the formation of the Faculty Committee Supporting SCRIP, according to French Prof. Raymond Giraud. The 20 members of the committee, "hastily formed over the weekend." issued a statement of support for SCRIP on Sunday which termed the trustees' abstention "irresponsible" and called tor a yes vote on the Ford proxy, according to Ciraud. "I think they (the trustees) made the wrong decision." said Paul Ehrlich, Peter S. Bing, professor of Biology, when contacted by the Daily. Those arrested on Monday received legal advice from attorneys. They discussed various legal ramifications at a meeting last night, according to SCRIP member Don Moonshine. No one knows if Santa Clara County will press charges vet. although the group will remain in contact with the District Attorney's office. Moonshine said.[2]
Ecoscience
In 1977 John Holdren co-authored a book entitled Ecoscience with Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich. In this publication they referred to themselves as "neo-Malthusian" in respect to what they considered to be the population-crisis. Malthusianism derives its name from Thomas Malthus who was a minister in the Church of England and widely decried for his most famous publication, An Essay on the Principle of Population. In this work Malthus states,
- "All the children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to this level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the deaths of grown persons."[3]
Federation of American Scientists
In 2009 Paul Ehrlich served on the Board of Sponsors of the Federation of American Scientists.[4]
References
- ↑ The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation (Accessed January 3, 2021)
- ↑ [The Stanford Daily, Volume 171, Issue 61, 12 May 1977]
- ↑ http://www.econlib.org/library/Malthus/malPlong30.html
- ↑ http://www.fas.org/about/sponsors.html