[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!

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[steve-b]

Population is self-correcting if the government refrains from screwing up the economy. Once people get to a standard of living comparable to the Western middle class, it makes sense to have few children and concentrate resources (education, particularly).

[StopGlobalWhining]

Global warming is the most pressing danger facing mankind today. Predictions of astounding human death tolls made by visionary Paul Ehrlich back in 1968 pale before his most recent pronouncements.

Ehrlich now predicts that if the Kyoto agreement is not ratified by the U.S. Senate before the 2004 elections, earth's oceans will have completely evaporated as a result of human induced global warming by November 2102.

President Bush, in a bi-partisan move to once again reinforce the "new tone" in Washington, tonight announced a commission, headed by former Vice President and presidential rival algore, to come up with recommendations to alleviate and minimize the crisis.

Also tonight, following blistering criticism from extremist GOP lawmakers, algore denied that Ted Kaczinski had been invited to serve on the commission.

[aruanan]

In 1968, in his best-selling book The Population Bomb, scientist Paul Ehrlich declared: "In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines--hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."

Science pee-pees on the head of Paul Ehrlich and other socialists who abuse science in order to further their political philosophies.

[aruanan]

BUMP