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Population Bomb Author's Fix For Next Extinction: Educate Women: Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth (David Biello, 8/12/08, Scientific American)

It’s an uncomfortable thought: Human activity causing the extinction of thousands of species, and the only way to slow or prevent that phenomenon is to have smaller families and forego some of the conveniences of modern life, from eating beef to driving cars, according to Stanford University scientists Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle.

This extinction—the sixth in the 4-billion-year history of the Earth—"could be much more catastrophic than previous ones," says Ehrlich, author of the controversial Population Bomb, which predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s.

...some of us don't mind killing off a few varieties of frog and some don't mind killing off humans.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 16, 2008 11:09 AM