The Awards Given To Paul Ehrlich

The John Muir Award of the Sierra Club

The Gold Medal Award of the World Wildlife Fund International

A MacArthur Prize Fellowship

The Crafoord Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and considered the highest award given in the field of ecology

ECI Prize winner in terrestrial ecology, 1993

A World Ecology Award from the International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri , 1993

The Volvo Environmental Prize, 1993

The United Nations Sasakawa Environment Prize, 1994

The 1st Annual Heinz Award in the Environment (with Anne Ehrlich), 1995

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1998

The Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize  for Environmental Sciences, 1998

The Blue Planet Prize , 1999

The Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America , 2001

The Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences , 2001

Ramo;n fMargalef Prize in Ecology of the Generalitat of Catalonia, 2009

Fellow of the Royal Society of London 2012

2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology

Paul Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. Beginning his academic career as a student of butterflies, Ehrlich eventually moved on to writing doomsday predictions based on population growth and was the author of books like The Population Bomb, The End of Affluence and Extinction. None of his predictions have actually come to pass yet academia's fixation with impending disaster caused by human activity has insulated him from general criticism and guaranteed him a position at prestigious Stanford. In television saturated America appearing over twenty times on the Johnny Carson show probably helped some too.

Ehrlich's status in academia is but another, and more consequential, factor in the growing realization that the scientific community based there doesn't measure up to the expectations held by the population. His position, unlike that of Claudine Gay and other frauds, has real world implications.