Posted on 09/16/2009 5:29:23 PM PDT by RobinMasters
In 1971, John Holdren edited and contributed an essay to a book entitled Global Ecology: Readings Toward a Rational Strategy for Man. He wrote (along with colleague Paul Ehrlich) the book’s sixth chapter, called “Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide.” (Click here to view a photograph of the table of contents, showing Holdren’s essay on pages 64-78; click on the image to the left to view the cover.) In their chapter, Holdren and Ehrlich speculate about various environmental catastrophes, and on pages 76 and 77 Holdren the climate scientist speaks about the probable likelihood of a “new ice age” caused by human activity (air pollution, dust from farming, jet exhaust, desertification, etc.).
Below is a direct scan from pages 76-77 in the book Global Ecology, with an exact transcription on the right.
(Following this section, scroll down to see the extended passage from which this quote was taken, with more context and more discussion.)
John Holdren is now not only the “Science Czar” for the United States, but he’s also one of the original leaders of the “alarmist” wing of the Global Warming debate — and he now promotes the notion that the current climate data points to a looming planetary overheating catastrophe of unimaginable dimensions. (He helped make the charts and graphs for Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, for example.)
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Ping.
The early to mid 70’s was all about the New Ice Age
The average of his extreme positions will probably be about right.
It’s abnormally cold. It’s caused by the Sun. We make no difference. Spending money to try to make a difference is futile.
But, it’s not futile if you want to control people.
“The early to mid 70’s was all about the New Ice Age”
Well, things were definitely cooler then than they are now.
“Well, things were definitely cooler then than they are now.”
Yep, no rap music then and a nice home cost 50,000 ;-)
This guy has been a serious idiot for some time. Paul Erlich, “Mister Population Bomb”, now there’s a partner you really want to hang around with...
The list, ping
I remember that well, having graduated in ‘72. We actually are in a mini ice age. There’s a man who makes a good case for it in the book “Not by Fire but by Ice”.
AND KILLER BEES!
Where the heck are the KILLER BEES?
I live in Texas. The killer bees are here. During the summer months, we hear of maybe one or two deaths a month. I personally, was chased by killer bees two summers ago while mowing a friend’s acreage by a lake. I was lucky to make it to the house in time. Some people are not so lucky.
Class of 72 for me as well.
Was mowing my lawn north of Corpus last night. Bees in my eave were fine until nearly dark, then about 20 got after me. Stung right through my shirt. Never know when a hive will be taken over by killer bees. Read about someone getting stung to death every so often.
These people are the Left’s equivalent of the hard core survivalist types on our side. In their own ways, each seems to think that the cleansing Apocalypse cannot come soon enough.
He was not a kook, he was ahead of his time.
Give that man a Nobel Prize, STAT! /sarc>
Cheers!
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