Here’s what the
leftist "experts"
were saying
a half century ago,
on Earth Day, 1970:
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“Civilization will end
within 15 or 30 years
unless immediate action
is taken against problems
facing mankind.”
— Harvard biologist
George Wald
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“It is already too late
to avoid mass starvation,”
— Denis Hayes,
Chief organizer
for Earth Day
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“We are in an environmental crisis
which threatens the survival
of this nation, and of the world
as a suitable place of human
habitation.”
— Washington University
biologist Barry Commoner
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“Population will inevitably
and completely outstrip
whatever small increases
in food supplies we make.
The death rate will increase
until at least 100–200 million
people per year will be
starving to death during
the next ten years.
… Most of the people
who are going to die
in the greatest cataclysm
in the history of man have
already been born.
… [By 1975] some experts feel
that food shortages will have
escalated the present level
of world hunger and starvation
into famines of unbelievable
proportions.
Other experts, more optimistic,
think the ultimate food-population
collision will not occur until
the decade of the 1980s.
— Stanford University
biologist Paul Ehrlich
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“Demographers agree
almost unanimously
on the following grim
timetable:
by 1975 widespread famines
will begin in India;
these will spread
by 1990 to include
all of India, Pakistan,
China and the Near East,
Africa.
By the year 2000,
or conceivably sooner,
South and Central
America will
exist under
famine conditions.
... By the year 2000,
thirty years from now,
the entire world,
with the exception
of Western Europe,
North America,
and Australia,
will be in famine.”
— North Texas
State University
professor Peter Gunter
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“In a decade, urban dwellers
will have to wear gas masks
to survive air pollution.
… by 1985 air pollution
will have reduced the
amount of sunlight
reaching earth
by one half.”
— Life magazine
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“At the present rate
of nitrogen buildup,
it’s only a
matter of time
before light
will be filtered out
of the atmosphere and
none of our land
will be usable.
… By the year 2000,
if present trends continue,
we will be using up crude oil
at such a rate
… that there won’t be
any more crude oil.
You’ll drive up to the pump
and say, ‘Fill ‘er up, buddy,’
and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry,
there isn’t any.
… The world has been chilling
sharply for about twenty years.
If present trends continue,
the world will be about
four degrees colder
for the global mean
temperature in 1990,
will be eleven
degrees colder
in the year 2000.
This is about twice what
it would take to put us
into an ice age.”
— Kenneth Watt
Global Warming
and Massive Starvation
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At the time of the
first Earth Day event
in 1970, most of the
"environmentalists"
confidently predicted
a complete exhaustion
of the world’s oil supply,
by 2000.
That certainly
did not happen !
So the "environmentalists"
changed the subject from
running out of an important
fossil fuel ( “peak oil” ),
to the coming global
warming catastrophe,
from burning fossil fuels,
such as oil !
A different prediction,
but the same attack
on fossil fuels.
The leftist song changes,
but the leftist dance
remains the same --
they attack capitalism,
through an attack on
inexpensive sources
of energy that support
economic growth.
And the alleged
"solution", to all of
their imaginary
catastrophes,
is always
the same too:
A more powerful
government,
more government
regulations, and
higher taxes !