Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich (born
1932), is a
Stanford University professor and a renowned
entomologist specializing in
Lepidoptera (butterflies). He is the author of the
controversial book The Population Bomb and other books which apply the lessons of population zoology to economic issues such as resource use and population growth. His predictions of massive global starvation and
resource depletion are controversial. He was also loser of the famous
wager between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich.
With Stephen Schneider and two other authors, he critiqued Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist".