"If I were a gambler I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000" or so said Paul Ehrlich Professor of Biology at California's Stanford University.
To give him credit he did say it some time before 1977 (as that was when the book I was flicking through looking for something else was published) but it does seem rather stupid now. I wonder why he thought it? Could ti be that he thought that we would all have blown the world sky high in a nuclear apocalypse or that we were all going to be taken over by the Soviet Union. Either way it shows how stupid our predictions about the future can seem!
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