13 Most Ridiculous Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970

Ricochet ^ | 4/21/2017 | Jon Gabriel

[freedumb2003]

Gotta watch out for that Global Cooling!

You know, because, SCIENCE!

[JBW1949]

Where are these “experts” today????

[dp0622]

Yeah 13 is really going in the wrong direction if you’re algore. :)

Hysterical predictions.

I wonder if anyone took it seriously and became a survivalist and sold everything and moved into an abandoned silo :)

[dp0622]

If they did it at 35, they’d be 82 now and holding strong :)

[Gay State Conservative]

One thing that wasn't predicted,but surprised nobody when it happened,was that I would be murdered and left in a trunk for months by the founder of "Earth Day",Ira Einhorn.

[samtheman]

“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.’” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt

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I particularly love this one.

[PoloSec]

In the year 2017 on Jan 20th to be exact, all around the free world liberal heads will explode marking the beginning of a Zombie Apocalypse.

[BipolarBob]

I wonder if anyone took it seriously and became a survivalist and sold everything and moved into an abandoned silo :)

And just what is wrong with becoming a survivalist and selling everything I owned and moving into an abandoned silo?

[Enchante]

I came of age in the ‘70s and so grew up with all the apocalyptic rantings. Took them too seriously until I learned better. Ofc the Ecotards will say their hysterical warnings led to policy changes that averted the worst for a while.... but that claim falls apart if we look at any details.

[seowulf]

“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.”

This might have come true if socialism had been allowed to progress unchecked.

As it is, there is Venezuela.

[Michael.SF.]

And that was settled science in 1970, 97% all agreed

[PGR88]

Paul Ehrlich’s predictions and statements are consistently idiotic.

He a top grand wizard of the pagan cult religion that is environmentalism.

[rockrr]

Yea, I (sorta) remember celebrating the first green day by smoking weed. I don’t think that it was what our teachers had in mind - except perhaps Mr. Clarke ;’}

[dp0622]

Er, nothing!

[Maine Mariner]

Some have passed away; others still secure in their tenured faculty positions.

[Enchante]

Well.... one of the worst of those eco-hysterics has just served 8 years as Obama’s chief “science advisor” and is now cozily back in academe:

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/john-holdren

[Delta 21]

They'll never learn.

[JBW1949]

Yeah, I looked them up...One thing though...ALL are surprisingly silent today about their predictions...I wonder why????

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

I predict that I’m going to burn a copy of silent spring that I purchased yesterday. Chances if it coming true: 100%. Grabs matches.