https://t.inks.page/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich?t=2026-04-05 The evidence we have is that toxics reduce the intelligence of children, and members of the first heavily influenced generation are now adults. The first empirical evidence we are dumbing down Homo sapiens were the Republican debates in the US 2016 presidential elections – and the resultant kakistocracy. On the other hand, toxification may solve the population problem, since sperm counts are plunging.

• Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades' The Guardian (2018)

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