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Ehrlich has been a pioneer in raising issues of population,
resources, and the environment as matters of public policy. Paul Ehrlich has given hundreds of public lectures, made more than a thousand radio and television appearances (including twenty on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson), and was a correspondent for NBC News. His presentations address today's major challenges, and how we can rise to meet them. Video of a talk by Paul Ehrlich is available here. For more information about speaking topics, fees and availability, please call our toll-free number,, or send us an email message .
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Paul
R. Ehrlich has been a household name since the publication of his
1968 bestseller, 
(Ballantine Books). He is Bing Professor of
Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford
University as well as Chairman of the Board of the Center for Conservation
Biology at Stanford. Ehrlich's honors include the John Muir Award
of the Sierra Club, the Gold Medal Award of the World Wildlife Fund
International, a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Crafoord Prize of
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (given in lieu of a Nobel Prize
in areas where the Nobel is not given), the United Nations' Sasakawa
Environment Prize, and the Blue Planet Prize. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences and the author of hundreds of scientific
papers and more than three dozen books. Cofounder (with Peter H. Raven)
of the field of coevolution, he has done field research on every continent.
(Island Press). The book takes its title from Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional,"
and alludes to the pride that went before the fall of ancient Mesopotamian
civilizations. The Ehrlichs warn that the hubris of our own civilization
could be leading us to an end similar to Nineveh's - whose ruins lie
near the Iraqi city of Mosul - if environmental trends such as loss
of biodiversity and rapid climate change are not halted. But a large
part of the book is also devoted to recommending steps to allow humanity,
and in particular the world's sole remaining superpower, to alter
course and work toward resolving the human predicament.
