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   From: jenningsltd@fastmail.com   
      
   On 22/04/2019 21:51, Byker wrote:   
   > 13 Worst Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970   
   >   
   > By Barbara Boland   
   >   
   > The 1970s were a lousy decade. Embarrassing movies, dreadful music and   
   > downright terrifying clothes reflected the national mood following an   
   > unpopular war, endless political scandals and a faltering economy.   
   >   
   > Popular culture was consumed with decline, especially Hollywood. The Omega   
   > Man, Soylent Green, Damnation Alley and countless other dystopian films   
   > showed a planet wrecked by war, pollution and neglect. In large part, the   
   > entertainment industry was reflecting the culture at large.   
   >   
   > In 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated - okay, "celebrated" doesn't   
   > capture the funereal tone of the event. The events (organized in part by   
   > then hippie and now convicted murderer Ira Einhorn) predicted death,   
   > destruction and disease unless we did exactly as progressives commanded.   
   >   
   > Behold the coming apocalypse as predicted on and around Earth Day, 1970:   
   >   
   > 1.      "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate   
   > action   
   > is taken against problems facing mankind." - Harvard biologist George Wald   
   >   
   > 2.      "We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival   
   of   
   > this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation." -   
   > Washington University biologist Barry Commoner   
   >   
   > 3.      "Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely   
   to   
   > enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and   
   > possible extinction." - New York Times editorial   
   >   
   > 4.      "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever   
   small   
   > increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at   
   > least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the   
   > next ten years." - Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich   
   >   
   > 5.      "Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest   
   cataclysm   
   > in the history of man have already been born... [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   
   >   
   > 6.      "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," - Denis   
   Hayes,   
   > Chief organizer for Earth Day   
   >   
   > 7.      "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." - North Texas State University professor   
   > Peter Gunter   
   >   
   > 8.      "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." - Lifemagazine   
   >   
   > 9.      "At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of   
   > time   
   > before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land   
   > will be usable." - Ecologist Kenneth Watt   
   >   
   > 10.  "Air pollution...is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of   
   > lives in the next few years alone." - Paul Ehrlich   
   >   
   > 11.  "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up   
   > crude oil at such a rate... that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll   
   > drive up to the pump and say, 'Fill 'er up, buddy,' and he'll say, 'I am   
   > very sorry, there isn't any.'" - Ecologist Kenneth Watt   
   >   
   > 12.  "[One] theory assumes that the earth's cloud cover will continue to   
   > thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the   
   > atmosphere   
   > by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun's heat, the   
   > planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age   
   > will be born." - Newsweek magazine   
   >   
   > 13.  "The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If   
   > present   
   > trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global   
   > mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This   
   > is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age." - Kenneth   
   > Watt   
   >   
   > http://tinyurl.com/m5vgkx4   
      
   And all the oil was supposed to be running out by 1980.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)