Does good news sell? If you were in charge of social media for your company and you had to get clicks on your website, would you feature good news, or fear and bad news?
Fear and bad news has been driving Paul Ehrlich for decades with a message of inevitable disaster. It started with his book Population Bomb about fifty years ago, when he said there were already way too many people for earth to support. But he was so wrong: the people of earth have more food and resources than ever -- and today global population is about double what it was then.
He's still treated like an expert for some reason. But the average material well-being of people on earth is so much better today. If you're not convinced yet, watch this.
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