Looking Back to Wild Environmentalist Predictions

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5-10-2008 1:39 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ed47f561-e1de-4baa-bb4d-fcbc30c5cd68/3F5FA37A-A95C-4D3C-AC2C-5E230D899E4C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EnvironmentalistsWildPredictions.htm" href="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EnvironmentalistsWildPredictions.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gmu.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EnvironmentalistsWildPredictions.htm">At the first
Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The
threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source
of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World
Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large
enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed." In 1968,
Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore's hero and mentor, predicted there
would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s ... hundreds
of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ehrlich forecasted
that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by
1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EnvironmentalistsWildPredictions.htm">
In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World
as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3F5FA37A-A95C-4D3C-AC2C-5E230D899E4C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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