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Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis

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About every eight years, Paul Ehrlich issues a prediction of disaster. And about a decade later, we learn he was wrong.

In his 1968 book "The Population Bomb", he predicted that the world would be unable to feed itself by the end of the century (yes, that century that ended over a year ago). Billions would die of starvation, and the world population would drop to a fraction of its 1968 value.

In 1976, his book "The End of Affluence" predicted that the world economy would crash "within a decade", resulting in a "North America unable to even feed itself".

In 1984, his book "The Cold and Dark: The World After Nuclear War" stated that, unless a unilateral nuclear disarmament pact was implemented, nuclear war was inevitable. He also failed to forsee the collapse of the Soviet Union, arguing that American nuclear policy would result in an increasing repressive and centralized Soviet economy.

This is just the most recent case. He's probably due for another book right about now, and his fans will forget the past when reading it.