“The Smartest President,”Jimmy Carter was just as certain that there would be no more oil by 2000. We are entering 2016 with a glut of oil, with prices of fuel the cheapest in a decade. So much for “experts” and their predictions.
In 1965, Dr. Lovelock and other environmentalists predicted that the main problem facing the world in 2000 would be the environment. Then they set about proving this theory by selecting likely culprits.
So they tried "a man caused ice age." That didn't work out so well.
Remember smog? Remember how it was going to block out the sun, permanently? Kids were going to start dying of rickets? Turns out that people didn't really like it very much when it actually did become a problem. So they supported sensible checks, that have, for the most part, worked.
Then they tried acid rain. But that turned out to be mostly a common natural occurrence, and less of a big deal than expected.
So they tried overpopulation. But that problem seems to be taking care of itself.
Then they tried forest fires. But Smokey D. Bear put a stop to that.
So they tried resource depletion. But it turned out that there were many times more oil than anyone ever predicted. Then they tried the hole in the ozone layer. But that proved to be easier to fix than they predicted.
We moved on to global warming. But it turns out that people don't care about this as they expected.
So they've upped the ante with GMOs, but their first love will always be Global Warming. Now, if only Mother Nature would cooperate, and help them get one of their dates right.