Oz Veloshian

He was in the, if you're going to predict the end of the world, just don't give a date camp.

So that no matter how much his thesis of impending doom wasn't playing out, he could always say, just wait and hear the signs and hear the indications.

And yeah, maybe I got the timeframe wrong.

Although he actually gave a date.

I mean, as you said, like in these books, he's like by the end of the 1970s.

And then he was like by the end of the 1980s.

So he at least could have been more...

held responsible.

I don't mean held responsible like he should have been taken out, put in the public stocks and had rotten fruit thrown in his face.

I just mean, you know, ideas do have consequence.

I do this, you do this.

In the belief that ideas have consequence, people value them.

In a capitalist society, they value them and are willing to pay for them where somebody is willing to subsidize them.

And that ideas matter.

And his ideas shaped a generation of attitudes and continues to.

Of scarcity, which some people track to real world consequences to his work, including, you know, the one child policy in China and immigration laws and stuff.

I'm writing a book about corn as a technology we eat.

Explain about the corn and what Ehrlich missed.

Corn was an answer to the problem that Ehrlich posited, which is we're running out of food.

Then Ehrlich also said we're running out of resources, food and resources, that the carrying capacity of the planet was being reached by too many people, not enough stuff, basically.