“Unbelievable Forecasts: 10 Futuristic Predictions That Crashed and Burned!”

In a 1970 issue of Mademoiselle, the Nobel prize-winning physician and scientist Paul Ehrlich stressed his concerns that the human population would vastly outgrow food supply. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” he noted. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

Although this may eventually happen, he certainly jumped the gun on his prediction then. Thankfully, hundreds of millions haven’t died each year quite yet.