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Global Warming: The Population Bomb of the 21st Century?
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Posted on 02/07/2007 7:29:54 PM PST by Reaganesque

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With all the Global Warming hysteria going on, I thought it would be helpful to remind people that this isn't the first time Liberals have predicted the end of the world and that their political agenda was mankind's only hope. Dr. Ehrlich wasn't just wrong with his predictions of mass starvation, he wasn't even close. Man-made Global Warming will be proven to be this decade's "Population Bomb."

BTW...In looking this info up, I found that Dr. Ehrlich maintains that he wasn't wrong and that he had a valid point despite the fact that none of his dire predictions coming true. Typical Liberal.

1 posted on 02/07/2007 7:29:58 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

I get to be first? GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT!
I remember Erlich. I also remember that we are in for global cooling in the late 60's and 70's until Global warming took over.
Frankly I am tired of liberals!


2 posted on 02/07/2007 7:33:08 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Reaganesque
I got into an argument about this with a liberal colleague. When I said Erlich had been debunked, his response was that the REASON these things didn't happen was BECAUSE Erlich warned us in time.

There truly is no point in arguing with a liberal.

BTW - The guy teaches high school history.

3 posted on 02/07/2007 7:37:43 PM PST by Scarchin (+)
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Just like people said in 1968, let the worried liberals all sterilize themselves before whining at everyone else.

Likewise its time for the new crop of whiners to turn off their heat,lights,airconditioning and give up their cars to show us all how important this issue really is to them.
4 posted on 02/07/2007 7:38:13 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: Reaganesque

Sean Hannity gave a global warming cult member a pretty good beating tonight.


5 posted on 02/07/2007 7:40:35 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: Reaganesque

It's the quadrophonic of the 21st century.


6 posted on 02/07/2007 7:43:57 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (I'm a climate skeptic. I am part of the "lunatic fridge".)
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"The predictions not only did not come true, the world developed in a direction completely opposite to the one predicted by Ehrlich,"

Instead of investing true wealth in the next generation, humans tend to spend it on themselves. (It is rather scarce resources that go to one's offspring and the growing of family.)

I personally theorize that this resoundingly explains gay decadence. It is a natural population control -- who needs kids when you are so fat and happy with yourself?

7 posted on 02/07/2007 7:44:30 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Scarchin

That's the great thing about being a liberal. Even when you lose an argument, you win.

Oh, and down is up, too.


8 posted on 02/07/2007 7:48:18 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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If you read Mark Steyn's book "America Alone" .. you can plainly see from the stats he provides that a "population bomb" is not going to be our problem.

And .. neither is global warming. The "bomb" will be that we will run out of population from the western nations of Europe (because of abortion), and the Islamic nations (who have 6-10 children each), will be populating the world.

America alone is not decreasing her population .. and that's why we WILL SURVIVE THIS ISLAMIC ONSLAUGHT.


9 posted on 02/07/2007 7:48:21 PM PST by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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Just found this... another lib claiming "consensus"(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".
Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University. Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

10 posted on 02/07/2007 7:48:47 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: cripplecreek

That Rosenberg? woman was something else wasn't she?...on H&C discussing how "we're all toast" if we don't heed the Global warming guru's........LOL


11 posted on 02/07/2007 7:57:22 PM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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And this:

William Stanley Jevons was one of the greatest economists of the 19th century. With Menger and Walras he was one of the three co-discoverers of marginal utility theory, the idea that as we consume more of something the value of each incremental unit diminishes. We value a glass of water to stop us dying of thirst much more than the same glass to help top up our swimming pools.

However, he fell into the Malthusian trap in The Coal Question (1865). In this influential book he treated coal as the essential resource for the British industrial economy and argued that it was exhaustible.

He worried about "our present rapid multiplication when brought into comparison with a fixed amount of material resource" and feared that Britain's industrial growth would come to a halt because its coal reserves were running out. Worse still he argued "... it is useless the think of substituting any other kind of fuel for coal."

"... some day our coal seams [may] be found emptied to the bottom, and swept clean like a coal-cellar. Our fires and furnaces ... suddenly extinguished, and cold and darkness ... left to reign over a depopulated country."

Jevons, William Stanley. [1865, 1906] 1965. The Coal Question. New York: Augustus M. Kelley.

12 posted on 02/07/2007 7:59:31 PM PST by Reaganesque
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That Rosenberg? woman was something else wasn't she?

She didn't know any of the "science" nor the names of any of the so called scientists she supports. Then she turns around and discounts the science of the scientists who disagree with global warming theories because she didn't know their names. It was a pretty pathetic showing for globull warming.
13 posted on 02/07/2007 8:18:43 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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I`ll never forget a few years ago, Al Gore came here to NYC in the dead of winter to speak about global warming, and it was one of the coldest days of the year, something like 10 degrees ouside, (which is not unusual here in the dead of winter. Matter of fact it is around that temperature now.)

And when someone asked Al about this, how can it be so cold out when there is global warming, he replied "it was cold out like this because of global warming"

So you know what this told me? You can`t win with these psychopaths...If it`s warm outside it`s global warming, if it`s cold outside it`s global warming. Whatever you say or do, you will never change their minds because they are insane people.


14 posted on 02/07/2007 8:20:42 PM PST by Screamname (Guinness world records reports that the record for youngest living person is constantly being broken)
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Paul R. Ehrlich! A blast from the past! I am not surprised that he still maintains he is right. Thomas Malthus was saying the same thing in 1799. I think Erlich was a true believer but that does not change how he was wrong.

His work had real negative consequences. The West is underbreeding itself to extinction and his work is one more excuse for abortion.

15 posted on 02/07/2007 8:25:04 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
I also remember that we are in for global cooling in the late 60's and 70's...

We are having global cooling RIGHT NOW. The 1960's prediction finally came true!

16 posted on 02/07/2007 8:25:43 PM PST by vox humana
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Here's an idea to shut the man made Global Warming nuts up:

We say that Global Warming visited Bob Jones University!

17 posted on 02/07/2007 8:27:20 PM PST by Reaganesque
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If libs truley believe in their own nonsense, they can help the planet out by "hari-cari".

Good luck with that libs!


18 posted on 02/07/2007 8:29:30 PM PST by rbosque
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To: Reaganesque

Global warming freaks and peak oil freaks sound just like this. It is all a load of irrational crap.


19 posted on 02/07/2007 8:38:54 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked)
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To: Reaganesque
This probably a very apt comparison. The Population Bomb was accorded virtually Biblical status among the "New Left" which was engorging itself on environmentalism at the time. The IPCC reports will have similar standing, uncritically used by the current Left to further distort the healthy processes of civilization through govenrment meddling.
20 posted on 02/07/2007 9:03:54 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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