No One Cares How Many Predictions Earth Day Founders Got Wrong

Breitbart ^ | 04-22-2014 | Chriss W. Street

[ReaganÜberAlles]

Over the last 44 years Earth Day has often been hijacked by political opportunists and faux scientists, but it is great fun to look back and see just how wrong the original Earth Day environmental experts were about the science and the future:

[Colinsky]

Continental drift was first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912; he was reviled and castigated and called a crackpot. But by 1964, the theory of plate tectonics became accepted as a fundamental hypothesis of geology.

[muir_redwoods]

I’m sorry but while still in my youth, the powers the be rehabilitated Alfred Wegener and decided there actually was a good reason Brazil fit into Africa so neatly.

[Cold Heart]

I am confused at what you are saying. Are you saying plate tectonics is nonsense or are you mocking those that do?

Plate tectonic theory was taught in my 1964 high school science and ‘64 college physical geograpy class.

Yesterday a news release said parts of the African continent were found under Eastern US.

I was being facious about not having to prep for the Cascadia event.

[muir_redwoods]

I was in first grade in 1955. Looking at a map I saw what anyone sees; eastern Brazil fits nicely into west Africa. I commented on this and my first grade teacher told me that such an idea was nonsense; the continents didn’t move. The discovery ofthe mid-ocean ridge at about that time proved that Alfred Wegener had been right all along.

[GOPJ]

“By… [1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” Paul Ehrlich

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions… By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support… the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” Life magazine, January 1970

I'll bet all these liberal elite now back global warming... I'll also bet the New York Times and Washington Post 'miss' this story...

[lacrew]

I actually once thought that John Lennon may be a fake name...in honor of Lenin...I was curious enough to look it up.

[lacrew]

You’ve got me worried. My grandmother worked in a Catholic school her entire life, and left them a chunk of change when she died.

I hope the money is being well spent...and not wasted on propaganda.