May 9, 2008
'Remembrance of Panics Past'
At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind."Posted by Ith at May 9, 2008 12:43 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHEC.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."
In 1968, professor Paul Ehrlich, former Vice President Al Gore's hero and mentor, predicted that there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s . . . hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."
Ehrlich forecast that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and that by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million.
Ehrlich's predictions about England were gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
In 1972, a report was written for the Club of Rome warning that the world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992.
Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book "The Doomsday Book," said Americans were using 50% of the world's resources and "by 2000 they (Americans) will, if permitted, be using all of them."
In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000."
Harvard biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." That was the same year that Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, in Look magazine, that by 1995 "somewhere between 75% and 85% of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
Remember all this poppycock they were predicting on the very first EARTH DAY all this that WE HAVE ONLY TED YEARS LEFT TO SAVE THE PLANET or how all our major cities would be under huge domes or we would ned gas masks to go outside and this fragile earth poppycock bull kaka and still their blabbering this hogwash its never ending this THE WORLD WILL END TOMORROW bull poo horse hocky pucks
Posted by: condor at May 17, 2008 12:19 PM
Oh darn, now I'll never get to Jolly Old England. I wonder in what alternate universe all those Brits are living, though. I mean, according to all the gossip rags, Amy Winehouse regularly head butts folks in London. Maybe she's a bad example as she really should be in an alternate universe, but you know what I mean.
[I guess I must have only been there in my mind! ~ Ith]
Posted by: Da Goddess at May 9, 2008 1:04 PM