Good day all. Since at least the 1970’s, the Environmentalist whackos have been screaming that “We’re all going to die!” unless we took extreme measures, starting with putting the whackos in charge.
The most recent screams from the nut jobs has been Global Warming and Climate Change. As is usually the case, the EnviroWhackos are dead certain that everyone will be dead if they aren’t put in charge and allowed to run everything. The Daily Caller decided to take a look back and see just how accurate these prognosticators have been over the decades. As you might expect, they have been wrong about…everything.
Environmentalists truly believed and predicted during the first Earth Day in 1970 that the planet was doomed unless drastic actions were taken. Humanity never quite got around to that drastic action, but environmentalists still recall the first Earth Day fondly and hold many of the predictions in high regard.
Unlike anyone else with 4 functioning neurons.
So this Earth Day, The Daily Caller News Foundation takes a look at predictions made by environmentalists around the original Earth Day in 1970 to see how they’ve held up.
Oh this should be fun! Let’s begin, shall we?
1. “Civilization Will End Within 15 Or 30 Years”
Harvard biologist Dr. George Wald warned shortly before the first Earth Day in 1970 that civilization would soon end “unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” Three years before his projection, Wald was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Wald was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race. He even flew to Moscow at one point to advise the leader of the Soviet Union on environmental policy.
Which was completely ignored as the fall of the Soviet Union and the huge mess the communists left behind came to light.
Despite his assistance to a communist government, civilization still exists.
Oops! Oh well, at least he got his Nobel Prize. So, what’s next on the list?
2. “100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving To Death During The Next Ten Years”
Stanford professor Dr. Paul Ehrlich declared in April 1970 that mass starvation was imminent. His dire predictions failed to materialize as the number of people living in poverty has significantly declined and the amount of food per person has steadily increased, despite population growth. The world’s Gross Domestic Product per person has immeasurably grown despite increases in population.
Just how wrong has Ehrlich been? Observe.
Ehrlich is largely responsible for this view, having co-published “The Population Bomb” with The Sierra Club in 1968. The book made a number of claims including that millions of humans would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s, mass famines would sweep England leading to the country’s demise, and that ecological destruction would devastate the planet causing the collapse of civilization.
Do you think the Ehrlich learned from his errors? What do you think?
3. “Population Will Inevitably And Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases In Food Supplies We Make”
Paul Ehrlich also made the above claim in 1970, shortly before an agricultural revolution that caused the world’s food supply to rapidly increase. Ehrlich has consistently failed to revise his predictions when confronted with the fact that they did not occur, stating in 2009 that “perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future.”
Global famine has been a favorite of these “Experts” for decades. They’ve never been ones to let petty little details, like being dead wrong get in their way. For instance.
4. “Demographers Agree Almost Unanimously … Thirty Years From Now, The Entire World … Will Be In Famine”
“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,” Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University, said in a 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.”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.”
And just how accurate was that prediction? Let’s take a look at India, shall we?
India, where the famines were supposed to begin, recently became one of the world’s largest exporters of agricultural products and food supply per person in the country has drastically increased in recent years. In fact, the number of people in every country listed by Gunter has risen dramatically since 1970.
Another prediction these Malthusian kooks liked to make regarded air pollution.
5. “In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have To Wear Gas Masks To Survive Air Pollution”
Life magazine stated in January 1970 that scientist had “solid experimental and theoretical evidence” to believe that “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.”
And how did that work out? Well, I can’t recall the last time I had to wear my gas mask when I went outside. Oh wait! I remember! I’ve NEVER worn a gas mask when I left the house.
Despite the prediction, air quality has been improving worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Air pollution has also sharply declined in industrialized countries. Carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas environmentalists are worried about today, is odorless, invisible and harmless to humans in normal amounts.
Another thing about CO2 is that it is a required gas for life to exist on this planet. It’s used by plant life. They take in CO2 and they release, wait for it, OXYGEN! That’s a gas we need to, well live basically. A slightly elevated amount of CO2 means trees and plants are happy and growing faster. A large amount of those plants are edible, so CO2 is plant food and plants are turned into people food.
The next thing these totalitarian anti-humans wanted, and to some extent, still want to do, is mandatory population control.
6. “Childbearing [Will Be] A Punishable Crime Against Society, Unless The Parents Hold A Government License”
David Brower, the first executive director of The Sierra Club made the above claim and went on to say that “[a]ll potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” Brower was also essential in founding Friends of the Earth and the League Of Conservation Voters and much of the modern environmental movement.
Brower believed that most environmental problems were ultimately attributable to new technology that allowed humans to pass natural limits on population size. He famously stated before his death in 2000 that “all technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent” and repeatedly advocated for mandatory birth control.
So he was a Luddite and a believer in Eugenics. You know who else was a big believer in eugenics?
Finally we have another favorite of the EnviroWhackos, Peak Oil.
7. “By The Year 2000 … There Won’t Be Any More Crude Oil”
On Earth Day in 1970 ecologist Kenneth Watt famously predicted that the world would run out of oil saying, “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.’”
Numerous academics like Watt predicted that American oil production peaked in 1970 and would gradually decline, likely causing a global economic meltdown. However, the successful application of massive hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, caused American oil production to come roaring back and there is currently too much oil on the market.
The U.S. now controls the world’s largest untapped oil reserve, the Green River Formation in Colorado. This formation alone contains up to 3 trillion barrels of untapped oil shale, half of which may be recoverable. That’s five and a half times the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia. This single geologic formation could contain more oil than the rest of the world’s proven reserves combined.
When they say that about half of this reserve may be recoverable, they’re talking about using current oil drilling and pumping technology. Who knows what the tech will be in 10 years time. Considering where it was when this prediction was made, I suspect the concerns over Peak Oil will be going the way of the dinosaurs. They’re finding more and more reserves all the time. When we finally do run out of oil, we probably won’t be using it anyway. This won’t make the Malthusians happy.
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Today we have the screams of the Church of Global Warming/Climate Change believers. You will see that I’m using Global Warming followed by Climate Change. The reason is simple. Every time the Moonbats started barking about global warming, we had sub-zero temperatures and blizzards. It’s hard to believe in man caused global warming when you’re shoveling a foot of snow for the 5th straight weekend in a row.
Now they’ve decided to call it Climate Change, and it continues to blow up in their faces. However, to many “True Believers” have gotten into positions of power in the United States and Europe and are now beginning to abuse their authority by punishing anyone who doesn’t follow their religion. Honestly, they are no different than ISIS or the Taliban.
All of these predictions and what should be done boils down to one simple thing. Control. The believers of all these predictions down through the years have used them to institute, or try to institute absolute total control over all aspects of human life. For our own good of course. The problem for them is that people hear what they’re saying, look around and quickly come to the conclusion that the Al Gores of the world are talking out of their collective asses. Now they are doubling down, and haven’t considered what will happen when they push to far.
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