History's wrongest man. Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, died over the weekend. I think there's a strong case to be made that he is History's Wrongest Man.
The thesis of Ehrlich's book was that the world was destined to become overpopulated. And as the population grew, resources would become more scarce, and humans would become poorer and less well fed. He predicted a world wracked by starvation, shortages, and famine. This has not happened.
