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Some more interesting news you never hear in the media. This year Earth Day was on April 22. EarthDay is when the tree huggers and environmentalist wackos get together to celebrate mother earth. Ira Einhorn is the founder of Earth Day. Ira Einhorn “beat his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux , to death and then stored her body in a locked trunk in his apartment for more than a year – about 18 months – before she was discovered by the police. He fled to Europe and was convicted 25 years later for her murder in 2002 and is serving a life sentence.” He is the co-founder of Earth Day along with another highly respected, honored leftist icon, Bill Ayers, former domestic terrorist – homemade bombs, his weapon of choice.
Here are some of the 13 worst predictions made on Earth Day, 1970.
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” That was Harvard biologist George Wald.
“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.
New York Times editorial on that day: “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who has yet to be right about anything, said “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.”
Number five, again, from Paul Ehrlich: “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: “Air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day, “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter said, “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.
Life magazine on Earth Day 1970: "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.”
Ecologist Kenneth Watt . "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.” Only a matter of time.
Ecologist Kenneth Watt. “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” and “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.”
Newsweek magazine on Earth Day 1970: “[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.”
Not one of these people was anywhere near being right. They were all part of a leftist political agenda. From others, famine, no oil, starvation everywhere but the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia. None of it right. And yet to this day these people and their descendants have total credibility with the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.
Joe Wollman
Odessa
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