http://www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm
These maps showed that we would run out EVERYTHING within 10 years, including arable soil. I was 21 and pregnant. Those maps terrified me.
Well, here we are today and we still have plenty of everything. When the Ozone Hole hysteria hit the media, my husband and I recalled (and you can check this) that National Geographic had shown the ozone hole in the IGY issue of January 1957. It was described as a natural phenomena. Of course, we all know it has closed significantly in recent years and it is doubtful the Montreal Protocol had a thing to do with it.
I keep wondering just how many erroneous valuations were made by American Appraisal of the value of things like gravel pits, metal mines, woodlands, et al, based on those maps and predictions? We have had many booms and busts in every commodity class since 1964. I also wonder how long it took to create those maps before computers, scanners and printers? The book, which took up an entire library table when opened, surely took at least two years to produce,back then, if not more.
Why can't the hysterics come up with anything new? Same old game plan, same old fabrications, same old agenda.