Quotes from Paul R. Ehrlich

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

Interstellar transport for surplus people presents an musing perspective. Since the ships would take generations to reach most stars, the only people who could be transported would be those willing to exercise strict birth control. Population explosions on space ships would be disastrous. Thus we would have to export our responsible people, leaving the irresponsible at home on Earth to breed.

Culture can be loosely defined as the body of non-genetic information which people pass from generation to generation.

In brief, death control goes with the grain, birth control against it.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.