The sad part about this is that the warm up to this nonsense happened in the 1970’s, with the scientific fraud Paul R. Ehrlich and his “population bomb”, proclaiming that the world was soon to be destroyed by population growth, and that by the 1980s, half the world would be starving.
His solutions were tyrannical, including forced sterilization, worldwide one child policies, authoritarian government control over all resources, etc., ad nauseum.
Even though EACH AND EVERY PREDICTION of his FAILED, it didn’t matter. And he is still beloved by the same type of sick people that believed him then, and now embrace MMGW, or AGW, if you like.
He was undoubtedly the worst science fraud since Lysenko, and just as abusive of real scientists, but unlike Lysenko and his ideas, Ehrlich was never disavowed, and his ideas thrown out with the trash, as they should have been.
And, as an important lesson, that in only took 20-25 years for people to forget Ehrlich’s public panic, for the new public panic of MMGW-AGW to commence in earnest, once it too is shown up as an utter travesty as well, in another 20-25 years or less, the tyrant wannabees will concoct yet another public panic.
Which, not surprisingly, will require *exactly* the same goals as the previous two.
Even sadder......his off and on again co-author John P. Holdren has been Barack Obama's one and only top White House Science and Technology Adviser.