le predizioni degli ambientalisti

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Here are some of the predictions made by the naturalists, environmentalists, scientists, media outlets, and leftist whackos in 1969 and 1970:

"We have about five more years at the outside to do something." - Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." - George Wald, Harvard University

"We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation." Barry Commoner, Biologist

"Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction." - NY 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." Paul Ehrlich, Biologist

"Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born." - Ehrlich

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." - Denis Hayes, the 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" - Peter Gunter, Professor

"There is growing doubt that the agricultural ecosystem will be able to accommodate both the anticipated increase of the human population to seven billion by the end of the century and the universal desire of the world's hungry for a better diet. The central question is no longer `Can we produce enough food?' but `What are the environmental consequences of attempting to do so?'" - Lester Brown, Agronomist.

"By the end of the century we'll have well over 7 billion people if something isn't done." - Paul Ehrlich

"World population at the end of the century is expected to be twice the 3.5 billion of today." - Lester Brown.

"To some overcrowded populations, the [hydrogen] bomb may one day no longer seem a threat, but a release." - Rene Dubos, Biologist

"Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support...the following predictions: 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." - Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

"By 1980 the oxygen demand due to municipal wastes will equal the oxygen content of the total flow of all the U.S. river systems in the summer months." - Barry Commoner

"Air pollution...is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." - Ehrlich

"[DDT and chlorinated hydrocarbons] may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945." - Paul Ehrlich

"Americans born since 1946...now have a life expectancy of only 49 years, and if current patterns continue this expectancy will reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out."- Paul Ehrlich

"There is one good thing about the blighting of our environment, that is, that Americans don't have to worry about cannibals anymore. We've all become inedible, there's too much DDT in us." - NY Times

"We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones," - Martin Litton, Sierra Club

"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.'" - Kenneth Watt

"Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." - Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day

"The greenhouse theorists contend the world is threatened with a rise in average temperature, which if it reached 4 or 5 degrees, could melt the polar ice caps, raise sea level by as much as 300 feet and cause a worldwide flood," Newsweek Magazine

"This 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 (same issue, different viewpoint)

"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 int an ice age." - Kenneth Watt

Not a single one of those dire predictions have come to fruition. Population growth has been slower than predicted and food production has increased faster than predicted. The ecologists of the 1970s actually believed that the environmental impact was a function of:

- Population (overpopulation will outpace food production and create unbearable pollution)
- Affluence (wealthy people pollute more)
- Technology (advanced societies pollute more)

They were wrong on all three counts. Population growth has been slower than they predicted, and wealthy, technologically advanced nations have lower birth rates than poor, underdeveloped nations. Food production has increased at a faster pace than population growth, again a product of wealth and technology. Wealthy countries have come up with better production technologies which have reduced air and water pollution, not by some government mandate but through natural evolution of efficient processes.

The countries which are polluting the world the worst per unit of output are the very socialist nations these people want to make our country into. Environmentalism was never about the environment. It was always about attacking capitalism by any means possible.