Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk said The Population Bomb - a 1968 book on overpopulation, written by U.S. biologist Paul Ehrlich is the most damaging anti-human thing ever written. What Happened: Musk s comments were in agreement with a post by the clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson who said Ehrlich has been famously wrong about everything he has predicted for six decades. Peterson shared a CBS News link to 60 Minutes. The TV news magazine explored The Vanishing Wild as one of the subjects in its most recent episode.
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According to Scott Pelley, Ehrlich is now 90 years old and believes that humanity is not sustainable. To keep our lifestyle yours and mine, you'd need five more Earths. They're not sure where they're going to come from. Pelley, referring to the Population Bomb, said he was alarmed when the book came out and is still alarmed at overpopulation.
In his book, Ehrlich had warned that overpopulation would cause widespread famine, but he had been proven wrong about that, as the green revolution mitigated that scenario, according to CBS News.
The scientists believe that greenhouse gases are melting polar ice and humanity overwhelming the wild.
Musk said recently that ape expert Jane Goodall said that the human population is the death of humanity. In the past, Musk said that population control due to low birth rates is a bigger risk to civilization than global warming. He also expressed the view that humans are absurdly concentrated on a tiny portion of the Earth's surface. Read Next: Elon Musk's Rumored Tesla Successor Tom Zhu Said To Take Charge Of North America Sales