{"id":21892,"date":"2026-03-18T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/one-of-the-most-evil-men-in-history-just-died\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:09:13","slug":"one-of-the-most-evil-men-in-history-just-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/one-of-the-most-evil-men-in-history-just-died\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Most Evil Men In History Just Died"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We\u2019re not supposed to say anything but good about people who\u2019ve just died. As the saying goes, speak no ill of the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

This man, however, left a wake of death, destruction, and catastrophe wherever he went. And most people don\u2019t even know his name: Paul Ehrlich.<\/span><\/p>\n

I write about Paul Ehrlich at some length in my book \u201cSpeechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds<\/a>.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And now, here we have his obituary in <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPremature,\u201d lol. The abject refusal to just admit this guy was completely wrong is one of the funnier Boomer-coded traits. pic.twitter.com\/oM5GYgDEtR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: @SonnyBunch\/X.com<\/p>\n

The headline and sub-headline reads: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Ehrlich, who alarmed the world with The Population Bomb, dies at 93. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

His bestselling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement, but he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here we go. Big lie. <\/span><\/p>\n

His predictions \u201cproved premature.\u201d What were his predictions? His prediction was that if the population grew any more, we would have widespread famine, because the Earth could not sustain all those people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"DailyWire+\"<\/a><\/p>\n

His prescriptions, therefore, were to stop having kids and sterilize people. We should use the government to reduce the population. These policies of his led to the one-child policy in China and forced sterilizations in India. This guy is \u2014 not single-handedly, but pretty close \u2014 responsible for the population crisis (or depopulation) that we face today.<\/span><\/p>\n

And they say his predictions \u201cproved premature.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Since he made his prediction that we would inevitably face mass starvation because the population was growing too much, since that time, the world population has doubled and global malnutrition has been cut dramatically. Today t<\/span>here are twice as many people as when he made his prediction, and we are more well-fed than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that his predictions proved premature. They were completely wrong. Totally wrong. <\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times is covering for Ehrlich in its obituary of him. Ehrlich did more evil than almost anybody in the 20th century. And the consequences of his stupid predictions and prescriptions \u2014 because he prescribed policy to governments \u2014 were mass evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

The consequences of his ideas led to mass death, sterilization, the violation of basic rights, and he never let up on it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is Paul Ehrlich, in the 1970s, discussing the problem as he saw it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a 1970 interview, Paul Ehrlich stated: \u201cThe FCC should see to it that large families are always treated in negative light on television.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that if this approach failed, then the government should \u201clegislate the size of the family\u201d and \u201cthrow you in jail if you have\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Ij7C5eso4W<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gentry Gevers (@gentrywgevers) March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: @gentrywgevers\/X.com<\/p>\n

In the interview, Ehrlich says,<\/p>\n

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The first thing the government should do is try and take the pressure off to reproduce \u2026 <\/span>Young couples \u2014 if they don\u2019t have children \u2014 people say, \u2018gee, they must be sterile.\u2019 They never say, \u2018gee, maybe they like good wine and going to the theater and so on, they prefer that to scraping diapers.\u2019 So there\u2019s pressure to have children. <\/span>So the first thing that should happen is that the president ought to say, \u2018From here on out, no intelligent, patriotic American family ought to have more than two children, preferably one, if you\u2019re starting a family now.\u2019 He ought to make the FCC see to it that large families are always treated in a negative light wherever they appear \u2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>y<\/span>ou can move to giving women bonuses for not having babies, that almost certainly would do the job. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If that didn\u2019t have the effect, then you could move to changing the tax structure so that people who had the money and had the children paid more for them \u2014 in other words, increase taxes on people with children rather than decrease them, since when they have the children they require more services. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If that doesn\u2019t work, then you\u2019ll have the government legislating the size of the family. And people say, \u2018Oh that\u2019s impossible, government can never intrude and tell you how many children to have.\u2019 Well, I got news \u2014 you know it intruded a long time ago and told you how many wives you can have and there\u2019s not the slightest question that if we don\u2019t get the population under control with voluntary means that in the not-too-distant-future, <\/span><\/em>the government will simply tell you how many children you can have and throw you in jail if you have too many.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So God tells us in the book of Genesis to \u201cBe fruitful and multiply.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

This Antichrist figure comes out in the 1970s and says, \u201cDo not have children. It\u2019s unpatriotic to have children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny because patriotism comes from the word \u201cPater,\u201d meaning father \u2014 it\u2019s an extension of filial piety, it\u2019s an extension of the family \u2014 and he\u2019s saying the pro-family thing to do is to destroy your family.<\/span><\/p>\n

He says, first we\u2019re going to incentivize people \u2014 we\u2019re going to discourage them culturally. Say having kids is bad, you should just drink good wine instead. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

All these arguments you hear today \u2014 Don\u2019t you want to travel? Don\u2019t you want to have experiences? Don\u2019t have kids.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And if that doesn\u2019t work, we\u2019re going to pay people not to have kids. Give women bonuses. Subsidize it. Say instead of having kids, go work at the widget factory, do spreadsheets, we\u2019ll give you money.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t work? Okay, now we punish you. Forget the carrot, now it\u2019s the stick. <\/em><\/span>If you have kids, we\u2019re going to tax you. We\u2019re going to make you pay for the privilege.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And if that doesn\u2019t work, we\u2019re just going to stop you from having kids.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What does that mean in practice? Because China implemented this. It means forced abortion. The government comes in and kills your child. You want to keep your child? No. Government kills your child.<\/span><\/p>\n

It leads to policies like in India, where people were told you can only get access to food and resources if you sterilize yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

That happened because of this guy. Because of his book. Because of his ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said in \u201cThe Population Bomb\u201d:<\/span>
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The battle to feed all of humanity is over\u2026 hundreds of millions of people will starve to death\u2026 nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Totally wrong. Could not have been more wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said we must have population control \u2014 hopefully through voluntary means, but by compulsion if necessary. That was his thesis.<\/span><\/p>\n

He described population growth as a \u201ccancer.\u201d Population growth just means more people. So if more people are a cancer, then people are the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human beings are a disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

The left has held on to that view for a very, very long time. And this is where the truly wicked origins of leftism \u2014 which endeavors to invert reality \u2014 began, during the French Revolution as an assault on the Church. <\/span>This is where the real satanic, Luciferian character of liberalism really begins to show itself. One of the fruits of liberalism is the view that human beings are a disease that must be cured, that must be eradicated from the earth. <\/span><\/p>\n

And now this guy is eradicated from the earth. And it\u2019s sad, because every man\u2019s death diminishes me because I\u2019m a human. <\/span><\/p>\n

As John Donne wrote in his famous poem, \u201cNo Man is an Island\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

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No man is an island entire of itself; every man\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

well as any manner of thy friends or of thine\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

own were; any man\u2019s death diminishes me,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

because I am involved in mankind.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And therefore never send to know for whom\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We should pray for him, because he led a very, very evil life. And in many ways, maybe he didn\u2019t fully understand what he was doing. \u201cForgive them, for they know not what they do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But we can\u2019t just think about him \u2014 we have to think about the institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

This guy got everything wrong. Not a little wrong \u2014 perfectly wrong. And he never paid a price for it. He kept his positions, his prestige, his influence. <\/span>His policies were implemented. They led to enormous harm. And the institutions backed him up.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now one of the chief cultural institutions, The New York Times, is still covering for him \u2014 still saying his ideas were just \u201cpremature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not premature. Wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as a final note, that idea \u2014 \u201cforgive them, for they know not what they do\u201d \u2014 this connects to something else.<\/span><\/p>\n

The world feel tense right now. The stakes feel higher. There\u2019s conflict in Iran, division at home, a lot of strain in the culture. <\/span>For Christians, this is Lent.<\/em> And if you\u2019ve paid attention over the years, this season often feels like that \u2014 more tension, more conflict, more difficulty. <\/span>In the story, this is the period in the desert, the temptation, the struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then comes Easter.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying everything magically gets better overnight. But if you believe in spiritual realities, that there is a meaning to history, a rhythm to the liturgical calendar, then it\u2019s not surprising that things feel strained right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes things look like they\u2019re falling apart \u2014 like when Christ was crucified on Calvary \u2014 right before they come back together.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n