Here is an interesting link from SMALLDEADANIMALS
18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year
sample:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald
estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless
immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
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,”
wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day
issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3.
The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page
warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely
to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration
and possible extinction.”
4.
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small
increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared
in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at
least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during
the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the
people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of
man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled
“Eco-Catastrophe! “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.”
A couple nice videos for Earth Day..............
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZTnX91hNW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhoaXZGJHM