Doomsday theories implode

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 06/02/2002 | MARK STEYN

[BJClinton]

The end is priceless: "So we should cherish these 450 pages of apocalyptic UN eco-guff. Like the peregrine falcon, against all the odds, the doomsday book is still hanging in there"

[TADSLOS]

The latest estimated time of arrival for the apocalypse is 2032

Balderdash! Any X-Phile will tell you it's set for Dec 22, 2012, just like Fox Mulder said it would. ;-)

[Clemenza]

Its OK. If we ever get too many people, the government has a plan to feed us this wonderful nutritious food called Soylent Green.

[the_Watchman]

This author missed a couple of topics. When I was in college in the early 1970's there was much wringing of hands over excess population and the impending Ice Age!

[LenS]

Soylent Green -- the ultimate Social Security fix.

[BJClinton]

Well, the aliens must be a superior life form so they'll have the good sense to wipe humanity out and save the world!

[Mike Fieschko]

Balderdash! Any X-Phile will tell you it's set for Dec 22, 2012, just like Fox Mulder said it would. ;-)

You're wrong -- it already happened, on Sep 13, 1999.

[Taliesan]

Fortunately, in Communist Romania there was very little clear-cut logging because Nicolae Ceausescu had the tree

Matk Steyn brilliant sentence bump.

[BJClinton]

When I was in college in the early 1970's...

Heh. I got out of diapers by the mid '70s. ;-)

...there was much wringing of hands over excess population and the impending Ice Age!

I've heard that before. Of course, the point obviously isn't the environment, it's about promoting socialism. So the scare tactics are applied whether it's an Ice Age, Global Warming or the Golden Cheeked Warbler.

[Zon]

See, it just goes to show how inept and incompetent man is that he can't solve problems to the benefit of himself, his family and society. I mean, it's a wonder man ever figured out how to control fire or invented the wheel let alone control of nuclear physics. Well, not everybody. Not even a majority or even 25 percent or five percent or even one percent proclaim chicken little scenarios in a for-profit competitive market. Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue solving real problems as the one-thousandth-of-one-percent show their ineptness and incompetence --  further exposing why they are illegitimate authorities.

[protest1]

Here is a link to a brilliant on line book exposing all the eco guff.

http://juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/freedom.html

It is long and detailed, download it, print it out.
Tell all your friends about it!

[Deguello]

"Balderdash! Any X-Phile will tell you it's set for Dec 22, 2012, just like Fox Mulder said it would."

I agree. The Aliens are coming anyway. Bring on the biggest and badest SUV you can make.

[VOA]

When I was in college in the early 1970's there was much wringing of hands over excess
population and the impending Ice Age!

And we'd be out of oil before 2000.

I wish someone like John Stoessl would just do a one hour special and "name names"
of all the tenured poobahs who made these doomsday pronouncements and still
got to keep their jobs.

I guess what really p-sses me off is that they were allowed to keep their teaching
jobs and indoctrinate later generations with the same clap-trap.

[Tony in Hawaii]

So, economic prosperity leads to a cleaner environment, therefore tax cuts are pro-environment. Too bad this simple logic is lost on these idiots.

[BJClinton]

Too bad this simple logic is lost on these idiots.

I think it more clearly illustrates the point that it's not about the environment, it's about promoting socialism.

[Free Vulcan]

But these days "environmentalism" is mostly unrelated to the environment: It's a cult, and like most cults, heavy on ostentatious displays of self-denial, perfectly encapsulated by the time-consuming rituals of "recycling," an activity of no discernible benefit other than as a communal profession of faith.

The best summation of today's environmental movement I have ever seen.

[#3Fan]

My guess would be between the spring of 2003 to December 2006. Not the end of the world, though, but the end for millions. Putin expects a massive population shrinkage next year, calling it the "2003 problem". This can't be the same-ole same-ole infrastructure problems, something's up that the powers that be are aware of and most of us are not. If not before 2006, then sometime between now and 2068.

[BJClinton]

I haven't heard that, do have a link?

[metesky]

More than half the world will be afflicted by water shortages, with 95 percent of people in the Middle East with severe problems...

This is the one doomsday prediction that I'd like to see come true, so we could sell the Ayrabs some of our fine North American water (75% of the earths fresh water is in North America) for about six bucks a gallon.

[BJClinton]

It would be ironic. However, they have plenty of natural gas to run water distilleries that would provide more than enough water. Assuming they actually do it instead of just burning it off.