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.
But,bu,but what about Venezuela? They are suffering through a famine right now. Remember, it is very hot there.
Category: Man caused disaster.
Another triumph of socialism and the dumb people voted for it when they elected Hugo Chavez and then changed their constitution allowing him to become dictator for life. The Turks have just voted against democracy and given Erdogan dictatorial powers. Poor Ataturk did his best but the people are throwing away his secular republic. Turkey is on its way to becoming an Islamic shitholestan. I was there in the ’90’s and loved the country. I wouldn’t travel there now.
Maybe get these idiots to pick the lottery numbers??? 🙂
Merle
And don’t forget its also Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s Birthday!
Don`t you mean Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov? That is his original birth name. It is true he took the name Lenin as an alias in 1901.
He is often given credit for the first Russian Revolution in 1917 but he was not even in the country when it took place .
He at first supported the populist group headed by Prince Georgi Lvov then Alexander Kerensky which deposed the Czar but when the popular voting in November the Bolshevics only got about 25 % of the vote he changed his opinion & in January of 2018 took power toppling the populist group & established the Soviet “C0mmunist” government which ruled unchallenged until it fell in 1991.
During the revolutionary period many communists assumed new identities most notably Losif Vissarionovich Dzuhgashvili….Who became Joseph Stalin.
I dump all my used motor oil back into the ground where it originally came from. It makes a great weed killer also.
I celebrated Patriots’ Day (April 19) by attending an Appleseed Project — Revolutionary War history plus great marksmanship training. We each shot about 200 rounds and had an absolutely wonderful time, plus hearing some great stories about the First Shot Heard Around the World.
Earth Day is to Patriots’ Day as Kwanzaa is to Christmas.
Does anyone remember “water water everywhere but not a drop to drink”? They taught me in elementary school we wouldn’t have water because you know – wretched people that we are destroying the planet.
Oh, and we should have run out of oil and famine should have killed us all by now. But I’m still fat and driving all over the place, so there’s that.
Now that Toejam is gone, I’ve come to terms with my big nipples too, so life is good.
Earth Day Predictions, 1970
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
Kenneth Watt, ecologist
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
George Wald, Harvard Biologist
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
“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, the day after the first Earth Day
“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.”
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“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, Stanford University biologist
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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, January 1970
“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.”
Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
Martin Litton, Sierra Club director
“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.'”
Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
Sen. Gaylord Nelson
“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, Ecologist
Jill – Nothing wrong with big nipples. That much more to suck on. Toejam was an idiot!
Thanks Denny. I don’t frequent the boobage but the comments are funny. Toejam really was getting to me. Good thing different men have different tastes! Maybe I’ll let my double g’s out more often now. 😉
I celebrated earth day and all it has given me by going on a 25 mile drive around a beautiful lake, grilling steaks on my propane grill, building a warm campfire and then firing up my John Deere tractor, DR brush mower, LawnBoy mower, Stihl blower, DR wood chipper, Stihl weed wacker, Echo chainsaw, Stihl chainsaw, DR wood splitter, Ariens snow blower and Chevy pickup ….. just to watch them all idle at once. What a beautiful sight!
And don’t forget how the founder of EarthDay famously killed and composted his girlfriend. Fortunately, girlfriends are a renewable resource.
You misspelled Earf.
First good chuckle of the day! ;o)
It ain’t enough to turn on more lights. Earf Day was a great reason to drive an extra 30-some miles. Also to fire up my gas powered Honda 5K generator. And if that wasn’t enough, there’s also the 2.2K Generac power plant. Gottta burn up the old fuel in those tanks so it don’t go bad. Maybe today I’ll make a 50 mile round trip to buy replacement gas in case I need to run those gennies if power goes out. Does all the extra power and fuel I use this weekend go towards my “”Fuck Earth Day” statement?
Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps one of the main purposes of man is to return tons of life-giving carbon BACK into the atmosphere? Otherwise, plants will continue to sock it away into the ground – where they can’t use it and no other species can get to it.
Yogy said: “Predictionsare hard. Especially those that are about the future.”