Another reason not to trust Harvard types. Ontario Emperor links to this post looking at past Earth Day predictions, such as:
• “...civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970.
• By 1995, “...somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970.
• Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “...the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,” Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.
• The world will be “...eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age,” Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970.
I think we should officially rename 'Earth Day' (which was itself renamed from Lenin's Birthday), 'Chicken Little Day.'
If you're an Episcopalian, know that your church is out in front when it comes to Earth Day, and knows God's answer to THE IMMEDIATE AND IMMINENT THREAT OF GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!! And that answewr is: sporks. Really.
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It just amuses me that each generation is convinced that it has all the truth. The worst example of this was when the original Humanist Manifesto was issued, dreaming of human perfection - and then we went right into World War Two and the Holocaust.
Our Sunday School class is going through Genesis right now, and it's sad to see that all of the troubles that Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, Esau, and the rest dealt with are still problems today. So much for the advancing power of the human mind.
Yeah, really.
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