Enviro Horror Stories: Before Global Warming, There Was The Population Bomb

DBKP ^ | April 25, 2008 | Mondoreb

[VegasCowboy]

Gangerous = dangerous. Perhaps that was Freudian keyboard slip.

[mojo114]

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.

[Kay Ludlow]

I clearly recall hearing about the Population Bomb back in Jr High - every year. We had to watch the little Future Shock movie every year too. It had an impact too - very few in my age group had more than 2 kids, and many (my sisters included) had zero kids and were very self-righteous about it.

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...

[VegasCowboy]

History is so beautifully calming.

Boy are you correct. One only has to look back at the alarmism over the past decade to realize there are always those who seem to relish dwelling on the "worst case scenario," which almost without exception never comes to pass. Y2K, the bird flu, overuse of medicine causing the development of a superbug; all things that I personally worried about. At this point, I do my best to realize that this country still provides us all the best opportunity for the best life of virtually any country on earth.

[Balding_Eagle]

According to Ehrlich, the United States would see its life expectancy drop to 42 years by 1980 because of pesticide usage, and the nation’s population would drop to 22.6 million by 1999.

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?

[ViLaLuz]

“The population explosion” was the vehicle to whip the public into a frenzy so they would have to allow legalized murder of the unborn.

[mojo114]

You got it! Now if others would just calm down.

[kickonly88]

A great sense of humor! Silly humans, oil is used for fuel,not food.

[Antioch]

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...

[uncbob]

There is? Should I mark doomsday on my calendar? If so, when?

Just look at the growth numbers and figure it for yourseltf

[eggman]

The language that the environmentalists use in regards to global warming sounds exactly like what Erlich and his followers were saying in the 60's. I posted a comment last week in reference to http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-global0419.artapr19,0,1146491.story a story about Arnold Schwarzenegger's global warming conference at Yale.

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.

[pankot]

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.

[elkfersupper]

Pretty soon we will see some sort of pill advertised on TV designed to combat eco-hysteria.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It was a very good Freudian slip. Gangerous — like gangrenous (gang + Green) and dangerous combined. Fitting.

[TheSarce]

Population-control cult ping...

[karnage]

Acid rain!

[Birdsbane]

“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?

[August West]

“We are presently just in excess of 9 Billion...”

Where did you get that figure? I thought we were at 6 - 6.5 billion.

[8mmMauser]

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