The “Chicken Little” threshold was surpassed long ago when it comes to the media trying to scare everybody to death with warnings that don’t come to fruition, but that has not stopped them from trying. Here’s another example courtesy of “60 Minutes,” which passed along more doomsday alarmism from a longtime fear-monger:
“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable. https://t.co/AwaKLZFGsj pic.twitter.com/MU1jHpuMwI
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 2, 2023
“60 Minutes” having Ehrlich (note that they misspelled his name) on to spout his decades-long failed doomsday predictions without challenge is just another nail in the “journalism” coffin.
Paul Ehrlich has been wrong about impending doom for the last few decades.
— 2023 sucks (@AnthonyBialy) January 2, 2023
“60 Minutes” obviously goes by the level of the fear-mongering and not the track record of the person making the claim, or else they’d never again feature people like Ehrlich (or Al Gore for that matter).
This person is one of the most famous wrong people ever, and they're still interviewing him with his catastrophic Malthusian predictions https://t.co/AwZqZp4fmm
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 2, 2023
If you’re wondering where we’re headed, 60 minutes brought on an actual genocidal maniac and presented him as a voice of reason.
Bad times ahead. https://t.co/MDuLKbsHU4
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 2, 2023
Is this archive footage from the 70s or is Ehrlich still around? Is CBS really this stupid??? https://t.co/FZt4tNJJLU
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) January 2, 2023
Here’s a thread that dismantles Ehrlich’s decades and decades worth of apocalyptic doomsday panic, and shame on “60 Minutes” for continuing to serve him up as some kind of “expert”:
Why is @60Minutes featuring Paul Ehrlich, the anti-human ecologist who has been 180° wrong for 55 years??!!
“humanity is not sustainable. To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you'd need 5 more Earths.”
More on Ehrlich’s catastrophizing
👇 pic.twitter.com/q6daPn8LGJ— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60Minuteshttps://t.co/xVAWIuZeiI
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60minutesUG https://t.co/GXphWwj2CR
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60minutesUG https://t.co/9z1zfpUtJl
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60minutestrans7 https://t.co/GaFl11ijSC
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60minutestrans7 https://t.co/5hQMHtLaZn
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60minutesUG https://t.co/Nir1TJGqPX
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60Minuteshttps://t.co/uvHPw8phK3
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
#PaulEhrlichCatastrophizing CC @60Minutes https://t.co/4C3HXmqIDC
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) January 2, 2023
The media seem determined to take Ehrlich seriously until he is accidentally correct, which certainly has not yet happened.
Because they rely on fear to weaponize “climate change”. It is the only way they can implement their pro-scarcity, anti-human agenda.
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) January 2, 2023
Google "Club of Rome". This "overpopulation" scare was started in the 70s and like "global warming" it none of their models of doom have materialized.
Yet another fake af, existential-threat-scaremongering tactic, to brainwash low-info, virtue-signaling voters.
— Nick Flor 🥋+🇺🇸 (@ProfessorF) January 2, 2023
The Club of Rome is the precursor to the WEF. Just saying.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 2, 2023
Unreal.
— Joel Engel (@joelengel) January 2, 2023
“60 Minutes” didn’t seem to feel the need to report that particular irony.
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