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To: EveningStar; All

I guess we can only excerpt from the Boston Globe, so here is an excerpt from this article...:)

1. You were long associated with population alarmist Paul Ehrlich, and joined him in predicting disasters that never came to pass. For example, you and Ehrlich wrote in 1969: “If . . . population control measures are not initiated immediately and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.” In 1971, the two of you were adamant that “some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century.” In the 1980s, Ehrlich quoted your expectation that “carbon dioxide-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.” What have you learned from the failure of these prophecies to come true?


9 posted on 01/18/2009 8:27:55 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: rlmorel
What have you learned from the failure of these prophecies to come true? <<

How to make a bundle selling books and chicken little stories to the dumb-ass liberals....and whats great...is u can do it over and over and over....they never catch on!!!

11 posted on 01/18/2009 8:36:16 AM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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