Posted on 04/24/2018 5:13:48 AM PDT by artichokegrower
In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, and in the years following, there was a “torrent of apocalyptic predictions” and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article.
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Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
Wow that is a good one just replace pollution with Liberalism / political correctness and it would be a very accurate statement
I was in high school and the school was in Manhattan, a couple of blocks from Central Park where the festivities were to take place. A lot of my school mates went over there to check it out. I went to the gym along with most of my friends, and had the courts to ourselves for a great afternoon of pick up games.
So I really enjoyed that first Earth Day!
First "Earth Day": April 22, 1970.
Coincidence?
ROFL!
I don't believe in "coincidence".
“civilization will end within 15 to 30 years...”
Well it could be argued that indeed the bats%t crazy liberals, a group these predictors belonged to, did become uncivilized within that time frame.
BTTT
Isn’t it amazing how the “solution” is always the same: reduce your standard of living, raise taxes and hand over more power to the government. Gee nothing suspicious about the fact that I s a bunch of socialist watermelons pushing this......same old red policies under a green cover.
Paul Ehrlich still keeps getting invited to speak on college campuses, despite the fact that he has never been right about ANYTHING.
I would suggest that tha actions he wanted taken are great contributors to what we see today.
Thanks artichokegrower.
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