A reprise of Paul Ehrlich’s candid conversation with us on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, in April of 2020. We discuss the COVID pandemic, overpopulation, The Population Bomb (including an amusing mistake on the cover), dinner with Johnny Carson, the deficits of our university system, the climate crisis, and human civilization’s prospects (“I'm very pessimistic about the future but very optimistic about what we could do”).

Dr. Paul Ehrlich is most famous for co-writing The Population Bomb (1968). He is Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus at Stanford University, and founded the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

GrowthBusters Campus Tour https://www.growthbusters.org/campus-tour/

EarthX https://earthx.org/

EarthxTV https://video.earthxtv.com/

The Population Bomb by Anne and Paul Ehrlich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

Nov/Dec 2019 Sierra Magazine https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-6-november-december

BOOKS MENTIONED (by Paul Ehrlich):

Rattlesnake Under His Hat by Sam Hurst https://www.earlbrockelsby.com/

The Wisest One in the Room – by Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25205421-the-wisest-one-in-the-room

Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul Ehrlich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159685.Human_Natures

Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment by Paul R. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren and Anne H. Ehrlich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6348326-ecoscience

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