Today is Earth Day so remember to turn on all of your lights to use as much electricity as you can. If it’s warm, turn on your AC. Mine is set at 72. Take your SUV out for a long ride to use as much gas as possible. Fire up your lawn mowers and leaf blowers. And don’t forget to fire up your grill and throw on some nice juicy steaks.
Earth Day = Piss off as many environmental wackos as you can. Have fun!
Legal Insurrection has some failed predictions from 1970:
Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” (We are still going strong 47 years later, though the appearance of man buns is now a cause for concern.)
Paul Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.” (Current human population = 7.5 Billion< ).
Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “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.” (Currently, the only regions at risk for famine are the Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen.…for reasons that have us much to do with civil unrest as much as climate.)
These predictions were about as accurate as the predictions of the global warming climate change alarmists. Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW claimed 15 years ago that we would be past the point of no return in 10 years. Of course, he was wrong as are most of these assholes predicting climate disaster.
