Yup, it’s Earth Day today. (Also Lenin’s birthday, but I am sure it is just a coincidence.) I know you can’t contain your excitement. But try.
As always, today is a good day to check in with Mark Perry’s list of 18 predictions made on the first Earth Day in 1970 that have all proven spectacularly wrong. My favorite:
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.”
But the experts agreed “almost unanimously”! It was settled science. A consensus even.
Even the left finds the day more than a little glum just now though
that’s because the world hasn’t ended yet. Remember—end-of-the-world
doomsday scenarios make environmentalists happy, so when the end of the world fails to arrive on schedule, they get the sads.............To Read More....
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