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Such gruesome news.
But why is it that I started laughing when I opened BB's thread?![]()
In my mind, I'd rather read your crappy opinions than those of Milo Yiannopoulos.In the minds of the liberal, the white Majority in America doesn't exist.![]()
Is Earth Day on Lenin's Birthday a Coincidence?
It may be sheer coincidence, but it’s all too fitting that the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, would occur on V.I. Lenin’s 100th birthday, given that most of the modern environmentalist movement grew out of the far left student movement of the…
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Clarice FeldmanIn any event, here’s a romp through the 13 most absurd predictions from Earth Day in about 1970. My all-time favorite remains Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich’s:
“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
Clarice FeldmanIt took thousands of years to develop Western Civilization, with its respect for free speech and assembly, and just decades for big thinkers like Ehrlich to worm their way into academia and create a generation of numbskulls. Unable to defend their puerile beliefs, the academic left is now shutting down free inquiry and destroying the moral and intellectual basis of the very institutions that have fed them. At Berkeley, whose mayor publicly touts his affiliation with Antifa, where rioters fight to smash the heads of those who dare to speak freely, Ann Coulter is defying the university that sought to deny her that right.
And at all the five campuses of the pricey and elite Claremont colleges, the fascists against academic freedom have stirred. The topper was the fuss at Pomona College, whose president David Oxtoby defended free speech as essential to the very purpose of the college the day after Black Lives Matter at sister college Claremont McKenna shut down a presentation by pro-police speaker Heather MacDonald. Twenty-seven Pomona students demanded an apology “for previously patronizing statement, enforcing that Pomona College does not tolerate hate speech and speech that projects violence unto the bodies of its marginalized students and oppressed peoples, especially Black students who straddle the intersection of marginalized identities.” They also demanded that action be taken against the Claremont Independent editorial staff.
It’s hard for me to picture students at a prestigious and expensive school (about $50k per year) on a gorgeous campus as “marginalized” and “oppressed” but the text of the letter explains why these students think they are.
13 Most Ridiculous Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970
https://ricochet.com/424431/13-ridiculous-predictions-made-earth-day-1970/
Today is Earth Day — an annual event first launched on April 22, 1970. The inaugural festivities (organized in part by then hippie and now convicted murderer Ira Einhorn) predicted death, destruction and disease unless we did exactly as progressives commanded. Sound familiar? Behold the coming apocalypse, as predicted on and around Earth Day, 1970:
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — Harvard biologist George Wald
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.” — Washington University biologist Barry Commoner
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” — New York Times editorial
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” — Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich
“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” — Paul Ehrlich
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” — Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day
“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.” — North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter
“In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” — Life magazine
“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” — Paul Ehrlich
“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate… that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
“[One] theory assumes that the earth’s cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun’s heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” — Newsweek magazine
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” — Kenneth Watt
Is Earth Day on Lenin's Birthday a Coincidence?
It may be sheer coincidence, but it’s all too fitting that the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, would occur on V.I. Lenin’s 100th birthday, given that most of the modern environmentalist movement grew out of the far left student movement of the…
cei.org