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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."

algore's insane hero and mentor. figures

1 posted on 05/15/2008 2:17:26 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

If we don’t get rid of liberals, the world as we know it will cease to exist by 2050.


2 posted on 05/15/2008 2:19:16 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Who's worried about the Bolsheviks? They couldn't be worse than the Tsar!)
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To: hiredhand

Prophet-of-Doom ping.


3 posted on 05/15/2008 2:20:26 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

Ok, lucky guess.        :0)

4 posted on 05/15/2008 2:20:39 PM PDT by agere_contra
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To: kingattax

I submit that the real idiots in this discussion are the millions of Americans that fall for this crap


5 posted on 05/15/2008 2:21:57 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." W 2001)
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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>


6 posted on 05/15/2008 2:22:55 PM PDT by 11th Commandment (McCain makes me crazy- Obama scares the cr*p out of me.)
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Somewhere I read that Dr Paul Ehrlich's actual field of expertise is entomology, specifically butterfly population dynamics. His predictions are probably perfectly reasonable if humans responded to environmental stress like insects.

If what I read was true it is another example of expertise in one field rendering one a total fool in another !

8 posted on 05/15/2008 2:23:27 PM PDT by Reily
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To: kingattax

bump


9 posted on 05/15/2008 2:24:29 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: kingattax

Why hasn’t Drudge picked this up. It is information that should be exposed to the masses.


10 posted on 05/15/2008 2:24:44 PM PDT by CHEE (Oh, give me land, lots of land.............)
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Say it isn't so!

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.

12 posted on 05/15/2008 2:32:34 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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• “…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.


18 posted on 05/15/2008 3:41:47 PM PDT by idkfa
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bump


25 posted on 05/15/2008 6:55:53 PM PDT by VOA
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To: kingattax; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; rdl6989; IrishCatholic; Normandy; Delacon; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

27 posted on 05/15/2008 8:06:49 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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I like reading Erlich's stuff. He's nothing if not consistent!

I can go to bed each night knowing that whatever he says WILL NEVER HAPPEN!

35 posted on 05/16/2008 1:23:52 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: kingattax

back to the top!! everyone should read this!


36 posted on 05/16/2008 7:39:01 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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