
Paul Ehrlich, our co-founder who passed away on March 13 at the age of 93, had an extraordinary impact on our living planet. His career was defined by prolific academic output and a steadfast commitment to sounding alarms about the human predicament. While he gained immense fame — and notoriety — from The Population Bomb (co-authored with his wife, Anne Ehrlich), his work spanned disciplines from entomology to the social foundations of prejudice.
Cover image: Paul Ehrlich at a press conference at Macquarie University in Australia on November 3, 1976. (Photo by Kevin John Berry/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)
“We didn’t solve the population problem; we just financed it with a credit card issued by the atmosphere.” Paul R. Ehrlich, PhD
Cartoon at right by Joel Pett, for Population Connection
Photo below: Roadside market in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 8, 2025. (Photo by Etinosa Yvonne/Bloomberg via Getty Images)



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