Posted on 04/22/2022 5:26:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Yup, it’s Earth Day today. (Also Lenin’s birthday, but I am sure it is just a coincidence.) I know you can’t contain your excitement. But try.
As always, today is a good day to check in with Mark Perry’s list of 18 predictions made on the first Earth Day in 1970 that have all proven spectacularly wrong. My favorite:
Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “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.”
But the experts agreed “almost unanimously”! It was settled science. A consensus even.
Even the left finds the day more than a little glum just now though that’s because the world hasn’t ended yet. Remember—end-of-the-world doomsday scenarios make environmentalists happy, so when the end of the world fails to arrive on schedule, they get the sads.
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LIGHTS ON!
The farm will be lit up like a runway between 2100 and 2200 tonight!
Lights on. BBQ lit.
Well, it’s my birthday too. Never minded it being Earth Day as well.
Wish I had a tire to burn.
Meh, I spent the whole day on earth.
Happy Birthday 🎂
Rev up the Harley and crank the amps up to 11.
Is that the time for the hour of darkness to save the planet?
What is that in real life time?
Thanks!
2000 was the prediction year? missed ‘em by a mile.
I forget, do we have eight years remaining for life on earth, or ten? I need to know so I won’t be caught off guard when everything ends.
/sarc
Well, to be fair - I have to admit that I'm currently out of ice cream.
And I won't be able to go grocery shopping for 1 1/2 days.
So I personally am having a 'Fudge Chocolate Chip' crisis.
This is a serious situation - but one that I hope to muddle through - somehow.
With some luck.
/s
And BTW...Arlen Sphincter,former Rat Party traitor Senator,was the lawyer who convinced the court to grant him bail.
I think I’ll celebrate by roasting a spotted owl over a whale oil burner.
Lenin was born on April (10 old calendar, 22 new calendar) 1870
Hitler was born April 20, 1889
Either way, they were birds of a feather, and the enviro-weenies celebrate their tyranny every year.
Loathsome creatures all.
Seems like a good time to try bald eagle roasting on a tire.
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