Paul Ehrlich died last week. His prophecy of a population doomsday never came to pass. It probably never will since the big issue at the moment are declining birth rates in the Western world.

But Ehrlich convinced a lot of people that what he saw coming was inevitable. Tons of people bought into it and accepted Ehrlich as an expert who should be taken seriously.

He was wrong about pretty much everything, though, as we now know. 

Meanwhile, let's consider that other people are considered experts in other fields and are often just as wrong as Ehrlich was about human population increases and global catastrophe. Paul Krugman, for example, famously predicted the internet would have no more impact on the economy than the fax machine had. He's still being mocked for that one, as he should be.

Despite that, there are those out there, such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who think that the government is better equipped to run things than the free........

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