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Recently deceased butterfly expert, Paul Ehrlich, had an estimated net worth of $33.7 million as of March 2025. The entomologist turned population-control alarmist made most of his loot from his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, and the subsequent fear-mongering fame his made-up crisis falsely induced.

Along with impressive book sales and Tonight Show appearances, Ehrlich also gained recognition through such prestigious awards as the $800,000 MacArthur “Genius” Prize and the $700,000 Crafoord Prize in 1990, all for being absolutely wrong about everything he predicted.

Ehrlich proposed many fixes for the imaginary ills of over population, to include;

Compulsory sterilization of anyone not named Paul Ehrlich,

Withholding food aid to people not named Paul Ehrlich, and

Cutting off U.S. aid to countries he deemed unable to achieve self-sufficiency, providing he did not live in said country.

Yet, despite the inaccuracy of his predictions, Ehrlich died filthy rich, though still stinging from the paltry $576.07 he lost in a bet with economist Julian Simon.