Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich | |
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 Ehrlich in 1974 | |
| Born | Paul Ralph Ehrlich May 29, 1932 |
| Died | March 13, 2026 (aged 93) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Known for | The Population Bomb (1968) Simon–Ehrlich wager |
| Spouse |
Anne Howland (m. 1954) |
| Children | 1 |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | The Morphology, Phylogeny and Higher Classification of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. D. Michener |
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (May 29, 1932 – March 13, 2026) was an American biologist, author and environmentalist.[2] known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion.[3][4][5] Ehrlich was a professor of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University. Ehrlich became well known for the controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb.[6] Some of Ehrlich's critics have called his works as neo-Malthusian.[7]
Ehrlich died of problems caused by cancer on March 13, 2026, at a retirement home in Palo Alto, California at the age of 93.[8][9]
References
- ↑ Professor Paul R. Ehrlich ForMemRS, The Royal Society, retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ↑ "Biologist Paul Ehrlich, Author of The Population Bomb to Speak on Oct. 18". Duke University.
- ↑ Waters, Hannah (April 22, 2016). "Why Didn't the First Earth Day's Predictions Come True? It's Complicated". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ↑ Mieszkowski, Katharine (2008-09-17). "Do we need population control?". Salon.com. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
- ↑ "The Population Bust: Demographic Decline and the End of Capitalism as We Know It". Foreign Affairs. September 2019.
Ehrlich's prophecy, of course, proved wrong, for reasons that Bricker and Ibbitson elegantly chart in Empty Planet.
- ↑ Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Greenwood Press, 1994. 1994. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-313-27414-5.
- ↑ Robertson, Thomas (2012). The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism. Rutgers University Press. pp. 126–151. ISBN 978-0-8135-5271-2. OCLC 746489134.
- ↑ Schneider, Keith (March 15, 2026). "Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With 'The Population Bomb,' Dies at 93". New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Paul R Ehrlich, Population Bomb Author, Dies". Sustainable Population Australia. 16 March 2026. Retrieved 16 March 2026.