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Chris Wright: “Paul Ehrlich just died, who's sort of the godfather of the…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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You know, his grovelly voice about his certainty of what's coming next in the world and you just know they're completely wrong. But yet everybody gets spun up in love. And then Paul Ehrlich just died, who's sort of the godfather of the Al Gores. You know, he predicted doom and gloom by many different mechanisms throughout his whole life. He was wrong on any every single thing. And the New York Times headline was Paul Ehrlich's predictions were ahead of their time. They were wrong. All these doom and gloom things are just about to happen again. (40:43–40:57)

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