FWIW:
From Freedom Works -
I thought these Earth Day Predictions from 1970 were interesting.
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 amine.” — 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.” — Life magazine
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
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