Biography

Paul Ehrlich was born on May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Population Explosion: The Human Bomb (1968), And Then the Climate Changed and Grounded: The Roots of Revolution. He was married to Anne Fitzhugh Howland. He died on March 13, 2026 in Palo Alto, California, USA.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 135, pages 123-127. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Former Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at Stanford University's Department of Biology.

We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out.

We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.