Yeah yeah yeah, we were told these same lies in 1970, that by 2000 the Seas would be dead, the Sun would be a Dim light in the sky etc. yeah yeah yeah.
And seven years later, we were told the earth was going to freezing into a round ball of ice... because COMING ICE AGE!
Every apocolyptic science fiction pulp press and serial newspapers and magazines have been publishing this fiction since the 1850s or earlier. Sheesh.