Originally Posted by
tuner
Well let's see, I've survived an ice age, the population bomb, deforestation of the rainforest, the depletion of the ozone layer, mass extinction etc.... At the first earth day in 1970 Harvard Biologist George Wald boldly predicted "civilization will end in 15-30 years unless imidiate action is taken" apparently we were entering a man made ice age. A UC Davis ecology professor (I'm sure you can appreciate the unerring predictions of a fellow ecologist)
kenneth Watts warned " the world has been cooling sharply for 20 years, the world will be 4 degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990,but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000.this is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age". Mass extinction was scary prospect, senator Gaylord Nelson warned the terrified gathering that " Dr. Dillion Ripley, secretary of the smithsonian institute believes that in 25 years time
75/80% of living animals will be extinct" also as result of human activity, needless to say,WRONG!!! The population bomb that was going to lead to mass starvation, as the world hit a population of 7billion by the year 2000 (it wasn't reached until 2011) instead of mass starvation the human race has never in it's existence,been as prosperous, healthier, or lived longer. I survived all these impending calamities because these theory's were all alarmist bullshit disguised in a semblance of scientific or scholarly legitimacy. The prospects of another cardiac arrest poses a greater existential threat to me than any impending environmental doomsday scenario, I've survived enough to know. The so called environmental movement has become a religious like, cult like farce,branding those that don't subscribe to their doomsday prophesys as blasphemous heretics, soulless fools destined to eternal,albeit earthly damnation.Like other doomsday cults, inaccuracies, wildly erroneous predictions,are simply shrugged off as insignificant details unworthy of further discussion.