Paul R Ehrlich obit

Paul R Ehrlich, Population Bomb Author, Dies

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Paul R Ehrlich, Population Bomb Author, Dies

Sustainable Population Australia

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is mourning the death of Paul Ehrlich, aged 93, co-author with his wife Anne of the 1968 seminal book The Population Bomb.

Dr Paul R Ehrlich was former Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at Stanford University's Department of Biology.

Ehrlich was a panellist on the ABC program 'QandA' in 2015, advocating on behalf of a sustainable population. SPA patrons Bob Carr and Tim Flannery were also past panellists on the program.

Peter Strachan - National President, Sustainable Population Australia

As stated by Mr Strachan:

"The Population Bomb warned of the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion. The book introduced millions of people to the concept of the Earth having finite limits."

"Dr Ehrlich's outlook on the likelihood of massive global famine intersected with a doubling of the application of finite, non-renewable fossil fuels to produce petroleum-derived fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides."

"Global human population has risen by 5 billion since the book was published, stretching the limits of sustainability and underlining that the general thrust of Ehrlich's work was correct, raising obvious questions for the future."

"Ehrlich's position on overpopulation has received considerable retrospective criticism, especially regarding predictions he made in the late 1960s. In response to criticism of the book's flaws, Ehrlich said in 2009, "perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future."

Jenny Goldie - Former National President, Sustainable Population Australia

Quotes As put by Ms Goldie:

"Ehrlich was keynote speaker at the successful 2013 Fenner Conference in Canberra on the Environment, called Population, Resources and Climate Change organised by Sustainable Population Australia. Paul said afterwards it was the best meeting he had ever attended.

Works

Books

How to Know the Butterflies (1960)

Process of Evolution (1963)

Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution (1964)

The Population Bomb (1968, revised 1971, updated 1978, re-issued 1988, 1998, 2008 and 2018)

Population, Resources, Environments: Issues in Human Ecology (1970)

How to Be a Survivor (1971)

Man and the Ecosphere: Readings from Scientific American (1971)

Population, Resources, Environments: Issues in Human Ecology Second Edition (1972)

Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions (1973)

Introductory Biology (1973)

The End of Affluence (1975)

Biology and Society (1976)

Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (1978)

The Race Bomb (1978)

Extinction (1981)

The Golden Door: International Migration, Mexico, and the United States (1981)

The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War (1984, with Carl Sagan, Donald Kennedy, and Walter Orr Roberts)

The Machinery of Nature: The Living World Around Us and How it Works (1986)

Earth (1987, co-authored with Anne Ehrlich)

Science of Ecology (1987, with Joan Roughgarden)

The Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament (1988)

The Birder's Handbook: A field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds (1988, with David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye)

New World, New Mind: Moving Towards Conscious Evolution (1988, co-authored with Robert E. Ornstein)[78]

The Population Explosion (1990, with Anne Ehrlich)

Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis (1991, co-authored with Anne Ehrlich)

Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico (1992, with David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye)

The Stork and the Plow : The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma (1995, with Anne Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily)

A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma (1997)

Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (1998, with Anne Ehrlich)

Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank (2001, with Andrew Beattie)

Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect (2002)

One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (2004, with Anne Ehrlich)

On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology (2004, edited volume, co-edited with Ilkka Hanski)

The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (2008, with Anne Ehrlich)

Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future (2010, with Robert E. Ornstein)

Conservation Biology for All (2010, edited volume, co-edited with Navjot S. Sodhi)

Hope on Earth: A Conversation (2014, co-authored with Michael Charles Tobias) ISBN 978-0-226-11368-5

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America and the Environment (2015, co-authored with Corey J. A. Bradshaw) ISBN 978-0-226-31698-7

The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals (2015, with Anne Ehrlich and Gerardo Ceballos)[79]

Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic (2018, with Sandra Kahn) ISBN 978-1503604131