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All of grim predictions had been decisively overturned by events.

Ehrlich was wrong about higher natural resource prices, about " famines of unbelievable proportions " occurring by 1975, about " hundreds of millions of people starving to death " in the 1970s and ' 80s, about the world " entering a genuine age of scarcity.

" In 1990, for his having promoted " greater public understanding of environmental problems ," Ehrlich received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award.