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Environmentalists truly believed and predicted during the first Earth Day in 1970 that the planet was doomed unless drastic actions were taken.
Humanity never quite got around to that drastic action, but environmentalists still recall the first Earth Day fondly and hold m
1: “Civilization Will End Within 15 Or 30 Years”
2: “100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving To Death During The Next Ten Years”
3: “Population Will Inevitably And Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases In Food Supplies We Make”
4: “Demographers Agree Almost Unanimously … Thirty Years From Now, The Entire World … Will Be In Famine”
5: “In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have To Wear Gas Masks To Survive Air Pollution”
6: “Childbearing [Will Be] A Punishable Crime Against Society, Unless The Parents Hold A Government License”
7: “By The Year 2000 … There Won’t Be Any More Crude Oil”
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: xuenchen
This a strawman attack on the environmental movement.
Find someone's over zealous predictions, then pretend that is what the expert consensus was.
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: xuenchen
This a strawman attack on the environmental movement.
Find someone's over zealous predictions, then pretend that is what the expert consensus was.
No it's not. Those were mainstream predictions that were well publicized.
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: xuenchen
This a strawman attack on the environmental movement.
Find someone's over zealous predictions, then pretend that is what the expert consensus was.