Ehrlich: We Must Change Behavior to Save Global Culture

[grunder20]

Another bald guy. bald guys really are smart. So smart they, surpass Susskind.

[felpaluche]

I certainly agree with the title.

[carioca56]

This guy is a hero. So is the Lizard Man, Dr. Erik Pianka.

[uwmbigb]

I concur, what hes advocating if you read between the lines, is frightening - hes gone on record saying he advocates involuntary depopulation methods. WTF.

[1iguerra]

@uwmbigb

I think you should learn to read before you talk about "reading between the lines". Furthermore, where has he gone on record saying this? Also, what "involuntary depopulation methods" was he talking about (violent, non-violent)? Think before you speak, and spout some smear campaign.

[uwmbigb]

@1iguerra I read his book, in no uncertain terms in plain english he advocates the sterilizing of people forcefully. Fuck outta here talking to me troll

[1iguerra]

@uwmbigb

you mad bro? it's alright you don't have to cry kid.

which book did you supposedly read?

Try checking his "Human Natures" page 304 before you talk again please.

[meadowfabricsdotcom]

This man is dangerous. Years from now Stanford university will be ashamed to admit that he was on their staff

[carioca56]

@meadowfabricsdotcom Years from now, when the Apocalypse has finally begun, Stanford University will look back and say, "That man was right."

[barbaralovesblack]

@acavideo  The whole thing is a lie. There is OVERWHELMING evidence of that. For instance, less than 1% of glaciers have even been surveyed, only a small fraction of those are being studied, only a small portion of those are retreating. Others in the same vicinity are documented to be advancing. But those are never reported.

[barbaralovesblack]

@barbaralovesblack It's all about money and power. I never said that the earth is finite. I never implied that. That is entirely your projection. Mount Pinatubo emitted more greenhouse gases than humans have emitted in our entire existence. The earth uis not infinite as you would seem to have me say, but it's it's a lot bigger and a lot less fragile that the doomsayers would have us believe. "The world is going to end if you don't do exactly what I (we) say" . Yeah, right.

[justindr660]

The comments below are moronic. Typical you-tube.

[barbaralovesblack]

Sorry boys and girls but I remember when Ehrlich was proclaiming in the 1970's and into the 1980's that the planet was headed for a global ice age and we'd all be frozen before now. He is just a professional doomsday scammer.

[TireLift]

my dog has more of an imagination to deal with the issue of overpopulation . this should not be a one person concept just because of a fear of dying from a shortage of resources only to die at the hand of a ideology like this clown !!!!!!!

[bando8000]

A single, underlying law of nature exists. Namely, the underlying law of nature (google it).

Nature always wins. When we get around to understanding this, we'll look for and uncover the underlying law of nature, to which we can adjust our thinking and behaviour.

Nature won't adjust to us. That's an illusion to which many of us unwittingly cling.

When we determine what it is, we can we begin to adjust it. Not before.

The good news is, it's not so hard to uncover and is a joy to adjust to.

[MrXfromPlanetX]

To everyone who is worried about globalization, Ron Paul and groups like the Cato Institute have advocated privatizing everything.

In Bolivia the water rights were bought up by Bechtel, and they immediately jacked up the rates so the poor could afford water.

You ever think if things are open to privatization, the rich like Bechtel, Haliburton, etc. will just buy everything and create a monopoly on it?

Corporations want to buy our roads - we're going to be screwed either way.

[MyCashDynasty]

Paul loves the Eugenics agenda and NWO slavery system for mankind. He needs to thoroughly outed for the Nazi lover that he is. His nonsense is what takes away Freedom from citizens throughout the world.

[MrXfromPlanetX]

Mr. Ehrlich is right about civilizations collapsing. The US Republic fashioned after the Roman Republic is headed down the same path as Rome.

Personally I don't think the majority of humans can adapt fast enough not to kill ourselves off. As Walter Lippmann (one of the most brilliant, but not very nice men in history) pointed out, humans don't take change very well: Public Opinion (1922). Humans can only be an expert at 2 or 3 things tops, and all his opinions are clouded by filters.

[louis12346]

it seems Mr. Ehrlich will have his way with humanity if the Copenhagen Treaty will have success. There is your global system, with a globally enforceable mandate- at first to impose carbon taxes upon humanity- later on to do what the eugenicists have always called and planned for: the orderly extermination of at least 80 percent of the global population.

ironically highly educated people can be some of the stupidest people on earth. This guy needs the

HITLER PEACE PRIZE.

[MrXfromPlanetX]

I would suggest the carbon tax is really to screw over poor countries. It will be just like the World Bank and IMF. It will be used by the ruling countries like the US, and Brittan to police the third world.

Of all people Fidel Castro recently pointed out that's what they are doing in Copenhagen.

The rich and powerful countries are strong arming the poor ones.

Liberals should have seen this coming, but they were to distracted by defending Global Warming, which was most likely the plan

[ConsciousCosmic]

Venus Project seems to be the most viable solution right now.

[MrXfromPlanetX]

The Venus Project is a nice idea, but you would need a consensus among humans for it to work. Humans would have to give up greed, and they love greed. Humans would need to be willing to cooperate with one another, and play nice.

It's not in our nature to do that.

[ConsciousCosmic]

If humanity is naturally greedy, then why am I not naturally greedy myself? "Greed" isn't anymore natural than the monetary system that created the conditions for greed to flourish in the first place.

How can there be a static definition of "human nature"? "Human nature" is a dynamic, continuously evolving quality! ;-)

[MrXfromPlanetX]

I would argue humans are not evolving as much as you would think. For example watch "Century of Self."

Bernays actually based much of his work on Willfred Trotter's "Instincts of the herd in peace and war" which is not mentioned in Century of Self, but is covered in "Crystallizing Public Opinion"

You're perception of yourself is in no way an accurate representation of the general public.

[ConsciousCosmic]

My perception of myself is not intended to represent the entire human species. It is intended to prove that there is no static definition of human nature. I think greed is a natural consequence of the monetary system and other economic systems based on domination, authority and control. That's about as "natural" as it gets.

I've seen "Century of Self" and understand that Burnays employed hypnosis to control human behaviour. Why would we wish to embrace this as natural? Evolution is a choice.

[bando8000]

@ConsciousCosmic

Quite right. Human nature is dynamic.

It is the underlying law of nature that is static! This is the item to which we must adjust [our behaviour].

Many or most of us don't want to hear that it is our behaviour that must change. We'd much rather hold (i.e., cling to) the notion that something external give way to us, instead of it being us that must learn to adjust and cooperate with it.

The underlying law of nature is that thing (Google it).

Cheers.

[661ride]

u will never have your new world order you globalist pigs we will defeat you.

[Wecknachricht]

he is a crook and sociogangster like John P. Holdren - they will be prosecuted by God himself!

[hatchedarea]

Ehrlich is a eugenicist and a failed academic. Many of his predictions have failed.

[bearhuntaa]

Don't listen to these elitist frauds. First of all, global warming itself is still being debated as what the greater effects will have, and this guy is already talking about mass human behavioral changes. THINK ABOUT IT.

[jcurnes]

Eugenics !!! I smell genocide as an accepted next level of evolution...hummm

[MsWanderer1]

The only cause of social problems is that people cause people. Just stop screwing around. :)

[alexoO0ooo0]

doesn't understanding cultural evolution require a substantial understanding of how our minds work? isn't that exactly the type of understanding we are tying to gain now? in what sense are we then not trying to understand cultural evolution?

[DSAhmed]

Amen.

[ferickson]

A call for cultural evolution.

Step 1: Identify the selective agents.

- War - Famine - Religion - Education - Global climate change - Leadership

Step 2: Support selective agents which are effective in accomplishing positive direction of cultural evolution.

Step 3: Reap rewards if progress avoids or limits catastrophic damage already in progress.

[MsWanderer1]

Are you really that arrogant or just that stupid?

[Sundrumify]

Recommend to read "The Genesis Effect",

Personal Organizational Transformations, by Brian P. Hall. This book is the result of 25 years of research into the relationship of values to human and organizational development. Brian Hall met and was influenced by Freire, Illich, and Fromm, enabling him to conscientize to the dynamic relationship among languages, cultural, societal, and institutional development.

Learned a lot from Brian, myself!

Lisa from Munich

[generationalist]

This video is AWESOME! Finally someone focused on the real issue. Here in the US there is a herd mentality of blue or red cola thinkers and if you say it's not blue or red but it is broken then you are immediately attacked by both the red and the blue christian, socialist fascists. The issues aren't US issues anymore, the issues are bigger whether anyone likes it or not. Thanks for the video Dr. Ehrlich.

[xx1Alex1xx]

I think it's a matter of changing the youths ways of understanding the signifance of environmental change.

[mochiam]

Try to convice the powerful to give up their grip on our tiny rock. It's ok with me

[hockeybum90n5]

Very true.

[1973Johnny2bad]

lets all submit to Islam ..the religion of peace

you fucking liberals are gonna kill us all ...

just because you live in a bungalo , in some gated community , doesn't mean fucking multiculturalism works ...

must be nice to out of touch with reality in fantasy land

[b0rn2sn1peUK]

well said

[jenko701]

They tryed this in USSR in does not work ,Sorry

[grofuss]

It's the boiling frog analogy though... we won't change until it's already to late. Further, as long as capitalism/greed/money and the need for wealth exists, it doesn't matter what change we want to make. Look at the recent H1N1 pandemic, there's plenty of vaccine for everyone, but not enough profit to sustain production. Until we shift our attitude towards long-term gain, we're not going to chnage as a species, together. It's morbid, but I'm still hoping for that giant asteroid... someday.

[dogatron]

how do you suggest we try to change the system? through institutions? sounds like utopianism which ultimately paves the road to serfdom.