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To: steveegg
Where's the next ice age that these same s were predicting 25 years ago?

Exactly. The sky is perpetually falling. Just to remind all what a bunch of Nostradami these sages are, the following are quotes from the first Earth Day in 1970:

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." Dennis Hayes, chief organizer--Earth Day 1

"At least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." Paul Ehrlich

"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." Prof. Peter Gunter, North Texas State University

"In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution... by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half..." `Life' Magazine, January 1970

"Air pollution... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." Paul Ehrlich

"By the year 2000... there won't be any more crude oil." Ecologist Kenneth Watt

"In 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary, Smithsonian Institute

"The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years... the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age." Kenneth Watt

"In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash program embarked upon now." Paul Ehrlich, "The Population Bomb" (1968)
9 posted on 12/22/2002 7:55:23 AM PST by GOPmember
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To: GOPmember
Excellent post!
16 posted on 12/22/2002 8:03:42 AM PST by MonroeDNA
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To: GOPmember
"Air pollution... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." Paul Ehrlich

Actually, the estimate is excess mortality of 50,000 per year in the United States due to coal burning. Victims of opposition to Nuclear power. Not burning coal would be worse, BTW, since the benefits of coal-burning outweigh the costs.

Also, nuclear power releases no greenhouse gasses.

22 posted on 12/22/2002 8:14:48 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: GOPmember
Great quotes! These doomsdayers need to be constantly reminded of their hyperbole. They make the weatherman look like the Delphic Oracle.
31 posted on 12/22/2002 8:40:38 AM PST by IronJack
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To: GOPmember
Could you supply dates for those quotations? I recognize some as coming from the 70's. They would be more impressive if we knew how long ago the world was supposed to have collapsed.
37 posted on 12/22/2002 8:52:34 AM PST by gitmo
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To: GOPmember
By the year 2000... there won't be any more crude oil." Ecologist Kenneth Watt

I was actually taught this in my Enviromental Science class in college in 1979. It was taught as a fact, just like the sky is blue. We were supposed to be having mass shortages by the early nineties and it would all be gone by 2000.

54 posted on 12/22/2002 9:56:25 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: GOPmember
Thanks for the reminders. I'd forgotten some of those "gems" from the past.
82 posted on 12/22/2002 2:27:03 PM PST by steveegg
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