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13 Most Ridiculous Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970
Ricochet ^ | 4/21/2017 | Jon Gabriel

Posted on 04/22/2017 11:16:46 AM PDT by freedumb2003

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To: freedumb2003

#7 was right

there’s starvation in Venezuela


81 posted on 04/22/2017 2:37:19 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: freedumb2003

And not a ONE has been taken to task over their stupid, politicized predictions!

Even ‘Miss Cleo’ was made to pay for her phony predictions!

I demand justice!


82 posted on 04/22/2017 2:45:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

What is it with blood-red Socialists and their TOTAL disregard for the sanctity of Human Life? It’s a freakin’ CULT with those people. *SPIT*


83 posted on 04/22/2017 2:47:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: PROCON

LOL! Yet another reason to love you, PROCON! :)


84 posted on 04/22/2017 2:50:35 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: freedumb2003

I was in high school for the first “earth day”. Our science teacher was highly skeptical of the dire predictions and so turned it into a day about being careful and conscientious stewards of the earth. Looking back, he was a big proponent of personal responsibility. He hated litterers so for our class that day we walked around the campus picking up trash etc. A good teacher with a sense of humor and civic duty.

Our French teacher, on the other hand, bought it hook, line and sinker. She had us reading dire predictions in French! Hilarious. Though we trusted adults and were worried she and another lib at school took it so seriously.


85 posted on 04/22/2017 2:50:49 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: SE Mom

I LOVED my H.S. Science Teacher, Mr. Potter. He was a skeptic about EVERYTHING unless he could prove/disprove it, himself. We had some great classes building lots of ‘scientific’ stuff. I especially remember building our own batteries and using them to race cars.

When asked what he wanted for Christmas, he said, ‘A brick for my toilet.’

Took me YEARS to understand that he wanted one to displace water in his toilet tank so it didn’t use so much each flush, LOL! This was LONG before the EnviroWeenies got a hold of us and destroyed all hopes of future generations having an effectively flushing toilet! ;)

And that’s about all I remember from High School. *SMIRK*


86 posted on 04/22/2017 3:01:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: freedumb2003

I remember the first Earth day and this sort of apocalyptic nonsense. When the prognostication is that over the top people shrug and say “Well, we’ll see. ..Experts damage their credibility with this crap.


87 posted on 04/22/2017 3:07:32 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: freedumb2003

And this was before Al “Fever” Gore joined the tin-foil hat brigade. Guess he was too busy at the time inventing the Internet.


88 posted on 04/22/2017 3:07:45 PM PDT by ssaftler (Better Alt-Right than Ctrl-Left.)
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To: ssapro

It’s been a learning experience so far. It was on CL cheap.

Worst case I don’t get it going, there is a guy (pricey) around Atlanta that works on vintage stuff. That might be a while.

In the meantime I’ll save up maybe buy a newer later era rice rocket.

I’ve learned tons about motorcycles in general from the guy in the office across from mine. That’s where the idea of a learner old bike came from.


89 posted on 04/22/2017 3:25:49 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: JBW1949

VATICAN CITY, February 27, 2017 ( LifeSiteNews) – Leading population control activist Paul Ehrlich spoke at a Vatican conference on “how to save the natural world” today despite an outcry by members of the Catholic faithful.
The conference, Biological Extinction, is sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. It takes place from Monday to Wednesday and is closed to the media - an unusual prohibition for Vatican conferences with outside expert speakers on matters of significant public


90 posted on 04/22/2017 3:38:32 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (We Americans like dogs & music. If you don't then stay out.)
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To: pluvmantelo

“...activist Paul Ehrlich...expert speakers on matters...”

*ROFL*


91 posted on 04/22/2017 3:48:12 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: freedumb2003

Libs will just say that the predictions didn’t come true because of all the environmental legislation they passed.


92 posted on 04/22/2017 3:50:33 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Enchante

These bad predictions weren’t the first to predict doom.

It’s ironic that Norman Borlaug won the Noble Prize in the year of the first Earth Day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug


93 posted on 04/22/2017 4:00:58 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: SaveFerris

72’s are nice C3’s. The last year for the front chrome bumper. I like the look of the early Trans Ams too. Never owned a C4, but I can see where owning one would be fun. Lots of changes over the C3.


94 posted on 04/22/2017 4:03:02 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: wally_bert

I think if you look around you’ll find somebody who may charge less to fix it. Especially considering the size of Atlanta. My first bike was a 67 Honda 160. Lots of fun and I always have to laugh when I think of the Honda Dream. More like a nightmare.


95 posted on 04/22/2017 4:06:13 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: ssapro

Yeah, that’s what I liked about her. Chrome bumper, though I like the 1973 about the same.

She was metallic brown, which wasn’t my favorite color. But I think they wanted about $4,300-$4,500 for her at the time. Interior was in decent shape. This was about 6 years after manufacture.

Gosh, I miss the 1970’s.


96 posted on 04/22/2017 4:07:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: JBW1949
Where are these “experts” today?...

As a UC Davis undergrad, I took a class from Ken Watt (items 9, 11, and 13 on the list) approx 1973.

Was Dr. Watt a wild-eyed lunatic?

No, he was just a very convincing one (to us unquestioning "kids" in his class, anyhoo.)

As I recall (it's been a few years) Watt's class was titled something like "Environmental Principles", and centered around 10 or so statements of (ha ha) fact.

His favorite one centered around the pending economical fallout from manufacturers' propensity to overproduce in the beginning of a boom cycle; and, his favorite prediction (again, as I recall) was how Boeing was about to overproduce aircraft, leading to the company's peril. (Boeing's order book is stuffed to the winglets, btw.) I might still have his textbook, if I can find it, it will be interesting to see if any of his major "principles" turned out to be correct.

More broadly, Watt took advantage of an implied trust between prof and students, and while we generally regarded him as a hyperbolic clown, we still tended to believe what he said.

Thus, education of college students is often delayed to the time when they encounter facts.

97 posted on 04/22/2017 4:53:13 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: freedumb2003

Historical BTTT!


98 posted on 04/22/2017 4:55:29 PM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: ssapro

I look at times here and there.

Most won’t touch anything over 10 years old. The story I get the most is that parts might be unobtainable and they sit. I can’t say I blame any repair place.


99 posted on 04/22/2017 5:00:38 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Michael.SF.

So much for irrefutable scientific consensus.


100 posted on 04/22/2017 5:36:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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