[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Anyone ever DARES to wonder how this world would look like if China, India and the rest of the 3d World achieved the same level of consumption we currently enjoy?

[KC_Conspirator]

I have pointed out time and time again how Paul Erlich's work should be thrown in the trash. This book was taken oh so seriously by the left in the 70's and not one, NOT A SINGLE PREDICTION of his even came close to becoming true.

[rellimpank]

--I've been wondering why anyone pays any attention to Paul Ehrlich for the last twenty years since (if I remember correctly) he has never been right in any prediction. In the meantime, I have a few pesky Chinaberry trees growing up in the wrong places which I am going to kill on Earth Day--

[B.O. Plenty]

"So how did the leading environmentalists get it so wrong in the 1970s?"

It's easy, they didn't have computers to make their predictions. If they had computers they most likely would have been wrong-er.

[razorback-bert]

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[Kermit]

Conservatives often make the mistake of granting the other side's "good intentions" or arguing from their frame of reference. Pete DuPont makes this mistake in his very first sentence: "On April 22 we will be celebrating three decades of environmental progress since the first Earth Day in 1970."

DuPont dates progress on the environment from the first Earth Day. The Environment gets cleaner as we get wealthier and more technologically adept. That started way before Earth Day and has nothing to do with a bunch of enviroweenies marching around in Barney suits.

[WaterDragon]

What is fascinating is to watch who is viciously attacking Bjorn Lomborg, the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, the book that has exposed the environmentalist movement as phony socialist liars. Scientific Magazine in particular comes to mind. Have you read what they did?