Paul R. Ehrlich

Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). He is also well known as a researcher and author on the subject of human overpopulation.

Other activities

Ehrlich was one of the founders of the group Zero Population Growth in 1968, along with Richard Bowers and Charles Remington. Supporters point to the impact of The Population Bomb and the ZPG organization in helping to raise awareness about overpopulation and in helping to change U.S. laws to make birth control and other reproductive health care more easily available. The U.S. fertility rate dropped from 3.42 children per woman in the early 1960s to 1.8 by 1975, and ZPG credits Ehrlich's influence along with the efforts of National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the U.S. Supreme Court for helping to bring this about.

Related Topics:
Zero Population Growth - Richard Bowers - Charles Remington - Overpopulation - Birth control - Fertility - 1960s - 1975 - National Organization for Women - Planned Parenthood of America - American Civil Liberties Union - U.S. Supreme Court

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He and his wife Anne were on the board of advisors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform until 2003.

Related Topics:
Federation for American Immigration Reform - 2003

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With Stephen Schneider and two other authors, writing in the January 2002 issue of Scientific American, he critiqued Bjørn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Related Topics:
Stephen Schneider - Scientific American - Bjørn Lomborg - The Skeptical Environmentalist

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