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'Cause He's Making Me Feel Like I've Never Been Born

Urbanism is a deeply human cause, set against "degrowth"

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Addison Del Mastro
May 18, 2026
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Paul Ehrlich, the deeply misguided author of The Population Bomb, died last March at the age of 93. It is not right to speak ill of the dead, and Ehrlich certainly posed no threat in his old age, his monstrous ideas having already been thoroughly discredited. (Not to the satisfaction of the New York Times, however, which editorialized in its obituary su…

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