Tom Schweich wrote: > I've given up dying over and over again, and > plan to live a little in my few remaining years.
I'm old enough to remember the predictions scientists were making on the first Earth Day in 1970 (see below). I was 17 at the time and became depressed about my future since the world's ecosystems were soon going to collapse. A psychologist told me the scientists were simply exaggerating to generate research grants. I told the psychologist "scientists don't lie" and stormed out of his office. Ecologist Kenneth E.F. Watt on global cooling: "If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age" North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter : "Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions....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" Washington University biologist Barry Commoner: "We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation," Harvard biologist George Wald: "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." Stanford University Ecologist Paul Ehrlich: "In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make," Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif.
