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A professor famous for predicting the imminent demise of the human race at regular intervals since the 1970s has predicted the imminent demise of the human race.
Paul Ehrlich, who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, says it's definitely on this time. In a tinned statement issued on Friday, the arm-waving prof lays it on the line:
There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence ... the window of opportunity is rapidly closing ...
"[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," Ehrlich said ...
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover, and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said lead author Gerardo Ceballos.
The original article can be found at The Register, with coverage of the cited study coming from ScienceMag.org
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Adamsjas on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:56PM
But he's been JUST as fanatic in the 70's when I was in college, and he was the darling of the doom crowd then as well.
The guy's been saying the same thing for decades, and wrong his entire adult life.
Look around you! The change is everywhere, electric cars, solar power, wind power. The only place you saw a windmill in the 70s was in Holland for gods sake. We feed more people with LESS farm land today than ever in history.
Things aren't being allowed to continue. So entire premise = WRONG.
There comes a point when this kind of doom saying becomes counter productive and just silly.