To: SeekAndFind
Forgot to mention the Ozone Hole.
2 posted on
04/25/2015 1:04:38 PM PDT by
MNDude
To: sauropod
3 posted on
04/25/2015 1:09:18 PM PDT by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: SeekAndFind
Great read of all the nonsense fear mongering in my lifetime.
6 posted on
04/25/2015 1:17:29 PM PDT by
catbertz
To: SeekAndFind
The great famines since the first Earth Day in 1970 were caused by war or deliberate political action--for example, the infamous famine in Ethiopia during the civil war there in the 1980's.
And at least in the Western world, we've made great strides in cleaning up the air, thanks to tighter controls on automobile and industrial emissions. (Indeed, it's very rare we get high-level smog alerts in the Los Angeles Basin anymore.)
9 posted on
04/25/2015 1:29:02 PM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: SeekAndFind
I see much of the commentary at this point is telling us they did not read the entire article before posting.
11 posted on
04/25/2015 1:33:06 PM PDT by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: SeekAndFind
Earth Day? I think he meant Lenin’s birthday, no?
12 posted on
04/25/2015 1:33:27 PM PDT by
hecticskeptic
(In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
To: SeekAndFind
My favorite prediction from the early Earth Day’s was Icebergs in the Gulf of Mexico by 2000. But, was when the big bugaboo was Global Cooling.
15 posted on
04/25/2015 1:56:01 PM PDT by
Nip
(BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
To: SeekAndFind
Of course the bozos with PhD’s who made predictions back in the 1970s.
They were operating under the false premise that Marxism would prevail. If that premise had been correct, there would have been global crop failures, mass starvation, and utter resource depletion.
To: SeekAndFind
They even predicted women would stop hitting on me and just yesterday I couldn’t get rid of another pest.
Damned attractive too but, I was in the middle of something amd needed her to leave.
Threw her back into the pond...
19 posted on
04/25/2015 2:39:17 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: SeekAndFind
Im so positively ancient that I remember when one of Jimmy Carters big answers to the impending shortage of oil was to increase federal funding for research on how to extract oil from shale. It ended the way you would expect: it went nowhere. But some decades later, private oil companies did find a way to more economically extract oil from shaleand environmentalists promptly made it public enemy #1.Carter tried to develop oil shale, not shale oil.
Oil shale is a type of rock. Shale oil is more or less ordinary petroleum, just trapped in rock.
To: SeekAndFind
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
To: SeekAndFind
29 posted on
04/25/2015 3:50:34 PM PDT by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
To: SeekAndFind
Here’s the list:
1) Global Cooling (deforestation causes new glacial age)
2) Overpopulation (growth out paces production)
3) Mass Starvation (agricultural depletion)
4) Resource Depletion (peak oil)
5) Mass Extinction ( meteor crash)
6) Renewable Energy ( dealing with problem that does not exist)
7) Global Warming (If the current trend continues...)
30 posted on
04/25/2015 4:12:41 PM PDT by
lulu16
(May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
To: SeekAndFind
36 posted on
04/25/2015 6:28:35 PM PDT by
CyberAnt
("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
To: SeekAndFind
The author of that old Reason article, by the way, was Ronald Bailey, who has since turned alarmist, in the style of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and who is the one asking what it would take for us to accept the reality of global warming.style of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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