• Mass starvation in the 1970s and 1980s


• Oceans becoming "dead" or all important sea life extinct by ~1985–1990


• England ceasing to exist by 2000


• Life expectancy in the U.S. dropping to 42 years by 1980

My introduction to Ehrlich was very early, and makes a telling anecdote. It was in a TV documentary (I believe) that made one of my little brothers cry. That was essentially the point; to make us gnash and wail and tear our hair over the inevitable. Or conversely engage in horrific forced behavior such as mandatory sterilizations.
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If Ehrlich had merely been a harmless eccentric with a bad track record, his legacy would be a punchline. But his rhetoric had consequences. Beyond scaring the crap out of my brother. By framing human beings as a "cancer" on the planet—a term he literally used—he provided the intellectual cover for draconian population control measures.

From forced sterilizations in India to the brutal enforcement of China’s "One Child Policy," the "overpopulation" panic fueled by Ehrlich led to systemic human rights abuses. When you convince the world that it is a sinking lifeboat, people start looking for whom to throw overboard.