Posted on 04/25/2008 6:28:05 PM PDT by mondoreb
“The Population Bomb” was the “Global Warming” of 1968.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate…” --Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1968)
Try this one on for an environmental doomsday scenario: a disaster of epic proportions is threatening Earth. It is man made in nature. In ten years–-ten years!-–life as we know it will be radically changed for the worst. And if mankind doesn’t do something right now, it will soon be too late.
Oh, and how do we know that the disaster is big, bad and scary?
A scientific consensus has developed which supports it. Scientists are scared, so everyone else better be prepared to hunker down for doom, too.
Global warming?
Nope.
Try “the population explosion”. The year was 1968 and the World Wide Web was still over 20 years away in the future. That’s when Paul Ehrlich released his best-seller, “The Population Bomb”, and seemingly overnight, population control was all the rage.
Americans were peppered with stories of global doom, in a world stripped of food and resources by an exploding, out-of-control population.
And of course, more government control and regulation was the answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at deathby1000papercuts.com ...
Gangerous = dangerous. Perhaps that was Freudian keyboard slip.
History is so beautifully calming. The 1970’s with President Carter was a real joy.(s) Rationing gas, you could only fill up on certain days according to your last digit in your license plate- even or odd. Cutting back thermostats to 60’s something. All the stuff that is happening now.
We lived through all of that carp very happy and survived stronger! The people of the United States will always bring things back to neutral, eventually.
Luckily for us, we live in the Internet age, where nearly instantaneous access to vast amounts of information always anyone interested in the subject to see how this line of reasoning, from Malthus through Ehrlich and beyond, have been wrong 100% of the time. The market always adapts, new alternatives are devised, and supply matches demand.
Kids today are more aware of the wide variety of opinions on everything, despite the efforts of the left and the NEA to turn them into little leftist automatons...
And there was the AIDS scare in the 1980's .(Razorback)
Now, we have the lack of sunspots to 'combat' Global Warming.
Who says there isn't a God, and that he doesn't have a sense of humor?
“The population explosion” was the vehicle to whip the public into a frenzy so they would have to allow legalized murder of the unborn.
You got it! Now if others would just calm down.
A great sense of humor! Silly humans, oil is used for fuel,not food.
When I was a kid in the seventies, the population bomb was the big scare and breeding was the decade's official object of moral outrage (TM). This poster by artist John Pitre hung on my wall of my bedroom to menace my childhood. Whenever I see it today, it still gives me the heeby jeebies...
Nobel Prize-winner R.K. Pachauri, head of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dismissed skeptics of global warming and said the world is unquestionably on a path of development and consumption of the Earth’s resources that cannot be sustained.
They still think we have too many people using too many resources and they want to stop it. They don't care if there are food riots and people starving if it helps them gain power to control how those resources are used.
Perhaps the whole world should contribute money so we could erect a 400 foot tall statue to Chicken Little. After all he has contributed much to society.
Pretty soon we will see some sort of pill advertised on TV designed to combat eco-hysteria.
Population-control cult ping...
Acid rain!
“Well there is a Population Bomb like it or not”
Maximum sustainable population for the world is 8 Billion. We are presently just in excess of 9 Billion and we are already seeing world fuel and commodities shortages. This problem will grow as exponentially as grows the population. The REAL problem is that there are just too many humans on the planet. Eliminating “Nanny State Rules” would be a big help in reducing this growing problem. Throw out the seat belt and helmet laws would be a good start, and then begin promoting wars as a worldwide sport is a logical next step. “Rollerball” anyone?
“We are presently just in excess of 9 Billion...”
Where did you get that figure? I thought we were at 6 - 6.5 billion.
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