Oh no! Tonight is the night I have to drive around without any lights on. I hate this crap!
Keeper. Thanks!
Today is the one day of the year that I turn all the lights in the house on, and leave them on, until I want to go to sleep.
I’ll save everybody some time:
1: “Civilization Will End Within 15 Or 30 Years”
2: “100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving To Death During The Next Ten Years”
3: “Population Will Inevitably And Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases In Food Supplies We Make”
4: “Demographers Agree Almost Unanimously … Thirty Years From Now, The Entire World … Will Be In Famine”
5: “In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have To Wear Gas Masks To Survive Air Pollution”
6: “Childbearing [Will Be] A Punishable Crime Against Society, Unless The Parents Hold A Government License”
7: “By The Year 2000 … There Won’t Be Any More Crude Oil”
Now, go turn on all your lights this evening.
At the risk of demonstrating my inherent egocentrism, I was 15 on the first Earth Day. Our school (in Yokohama, no less) had an Earth Day assembly, and I gave the Big Speech. Don’t remember what I said, but it was probably the usual environmentalist claptrap of the time. It took the better part of ten years for me to grow out of that type of thinking, though I am quite glad I finally did.
My environmental policy would be: “You must clean up the mess you make.”
The irony about all the starvation hyperbole is that agricultural output has increased significantly in the last half a century, making vastly more food available to the world. Why? More advanced farming methods, including industrial-scale ranching and cropping; better hybrid (read “genetically engineered”) seedstock; and ... wait for it ... greater use of agri-chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers — the very things the environazis rebelled against.
can’t fix stupid, but duct tape might muffle it for awhile.
And yet, they persist.
Seems they have become climatoligists in the new millenium.
Sort of like the daily predictions now that Europe will cease to exist or become a caliphate in 20 years...
Sending this to my pastor.