Posted on 05/15/2008 2:17:25 PM PDT by kingattax
-Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let's look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.
At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore's hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ehrlich said 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich's predictions about England were gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
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algore's insane hero and mentor. figures
If we don’t get rid of liberals, the world as we know it will cease to exist by 2050.
Prophet-of-Doom ping.
Ok, lucky guess. :0)
I submit that the real idiots in this discussion are the millions of Americans that fall for this crap
Williams forgot all about the 1980/1990 ozone hole scare. Remember the predictions of “even if we act now, it is too late”. $650 billion later all the Western world has new A/C’s while China and the developing nation produce more CFC’s than ever. And guess what... NO OZONE HOLE>
thats a GREAT point
If what I read was true it is another example of expertise in one field rendering one a total fool in another !
bump
Why hasn’t Drudge picked this up. It is information that should be exposed to the masses.
GK Chesterton once said:
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” G. K. Chesterton
Fortunately, there will always be a few who are willing to challenge the orthodoxy regardless of how deeply ingrained it has become. From Columbus, ("The earth is flat!") to Washington, ("The British Army is invincible!") America has had a way of inspiring greatness that arises from challenging convention (or "concensus") and rising above it.
The politics of fear applies to environmentalism? But aren't those many of the same people who believe there is no threat from radical Islam, Iran, Libya, and that the GWOT is just fear mongering by Bush?
The liberal sees the world upside down.
These hoaxers, and they are either hoaxers or total nuts, whichever, prey on the ignorant and young.
About time to defeat them everywhere (anyone know how to send this to the RNC, GOP and John McCain?)
Heck none of the past predictions matter. We’re supposed to forget all that and focus on what Al Gore and his henchmen are saying NOW. Al Gore says the debate is over. He’s put his weight behind the global warming movement. So we’re supposed to all fall in line with this.
“I submit that the real idiots in this discussion are the millions of Americans that fall for this crap”
Yes, but the scary thing is that one of these idiots is running for President...on the GOP ticket.
With his full brain tied behind his back!
I submit that the real idiots in this discussion are the millions of Americans Democrats that fall for this crap
• “…civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970.
• By 1995, “…somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970.
• Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,” Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.
• The world will be “…eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age,” Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970.
• “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970.
• “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from the intolerable deteriorations and possible extinction,” The New York Times editorial, April 20, 1970.
• “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half…” Life magazine, January 1970.
• “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.
• “…air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.
• Ehrlich also predicted that in 1973, 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution, and that by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans would be 42 years.
• “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.
• “By the year 2000…the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine,” Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.
McCain has “fallen for that crap”...He is a Republican.
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