Phurfur 70 Posted April 22, 2013 Here are some of the predictions made on the first Earth Day 1970. Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the predictions made today. First Earth Day Predictions “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, Ecologist “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, Ecologist “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.” • Sen. Gaylord Nelson “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, North Texas State University “ 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, January 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 Biologist “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, Stanford University biologist “ It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” • Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day “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, Stanford University biologist “ 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 “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist “ 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 director “ 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, Washington University 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.” • New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day "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." Ehrlich, speech during Earth Day, 1970 LATER "By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people ... If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971. "Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000." Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972. "[by] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…[by 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer, published in "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990. Within a few years "children just aren't going to know what snow is." Snowfall will be "a very rare and exciting event." Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000. The beat goes on, the beat goes on Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shovelheadt 62 Posted April 22, 2013 Yayyyyyy, we're wiping our asses with the Earth at a slower rate than predicted!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mookz 1,287 Posted April 22, 2013 Merry Christmas. Happy birthday to whoever's bein' born. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IGotWorms 3,317 Posted April 22, 2013 I'm really looking forward to Phurfur Leaves the Earth Day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewbieJr 540 Posted April 22, 2013 I'm really looking forward to Phurfur Leaves the Earth Day If it wasn't illegal, I'd help him along. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted April 22, 2013 All those predictions were before computers. Now they can write a program that will predict what they say will happen, and even when the predictions are proven wrong time after time, rubes still buy into what the MMGW alarmists say. Good stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoytdwow 202 Posted April 22, 2013 I've never really understood why the flat-earthers are OK with destroying god's creation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted April 22, 2013 I've never really understood why the flat-earthers are OK with destroying god's creation. Who would these "flat-earthers" be? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rholio 339 Posted April 22, 2013 Many of these predictions have to do with pollution and population growth. 1970 is when many industrialized countries began taking pollution control seriously. So, rather than say 'they're crazy', maybe we should say ' it's working'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoytdwow 202 Posted April 22, 2013 Who would these "flat-earthers" be? The lunatic fringe of the Republitard party. You and phartfuck, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted April 22, 2013 The lunatic fringe of the Republitard party. You and phartfuck, etc. Gotcha. So, since I don't buy into "MMGW" I want to destroy the Earth. Good to know you are smart enough to argue your position on the merits, and not resort to hysterics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
patweisers44 697 Posted April 22, 2013 Were those quotes from Earth Day or a Democratic National Convention? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted April 22, 2013 The Dems certainly seem to get marching orders from the Cold-Earthers Hot-Earthers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bert 1,092 Posted April 22, 2013 I just printed the Minnesota and Montana tax codes and put them in the recycle bin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
patweisers44 697 Posted April 22, 2013 I just printed the Minnesota and Montana tax codes and put them in the recycle bin. You, Bert, are a mad man! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bert 1,092 Posted April 22, 2013 You, Bert, are a mad man! Doing my part to recycle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5-Points 2,734 Posted April 22, 2013 I've never really understood why the flat-earthers are OK with destroying god's creation. Because it's flat. When we roon one side we can just flip it over and use the other side. Like pillows or toilet paper. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drobeski 3,061 Posted April 22, 2013 Carbon taxes will save the planet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drobeski 3,061 Posted April 22, 2013 I just poked holes if the catalytic converter of my 5.4 f150 to celebrate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frank 2,147 Posted April 22, 2013 Because it's flat. When we roon one side we can just flip it over and use the other side. Like pillows or toilet paper. So I can say I'm as cool as the other side of the planet? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
patweisers44 697 Posted April 22, 2013 Because it's flat. When we roon one side we can just flip it over and use the other side. Like pillows or toilet paper. So I can say I'm as cool as the other side of the planet? Not really, but you can say you are as double-ply as the other side of the toilet paper. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Finbabble Garp 1 Posted April 22, 2013 LOL @ the dumfock Phurphag Pilot who isn't aware about two-thirds of those predictions have been substantially on-the-money, because he's not smart enough to look anywhere but Fox News. RP, you really are a stupid homo. Owned by life, owned by Fin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldMaid 1,838 Posted April 22, 2013 All those predictions were before computers. Now they can write a program that will predict what they say will happen, and even when the predictions are proven wrong time after time, rubes still buy into what the MMGW alarmists say. Good stuff. When exactly were these predictions made? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted April 22, 2013 When exactly were these predictions made? 1970. They said your rivers would run dry in 10-15 years, and were right about that. However they predicted no TP swipe would survive the dry trauma and were apparently wrong... So conflicting reporting... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Finbabble Garp 1 Posted April 22, 2013 LOL and that's with your best retardo effort to find laughable predictions. Serious question for site owner boy: Why you so stoopid, Mike? Let a single poly-login cancer ruin your forum and drive away your bizness till issa ghost town here? Piss away all the FF traffic till FBG can buy and sell you a thousand times over? PM me. 10k cash on the barrelhead today for this focked bizness. I'll have it stomping FBG's arse in a year's time. LOL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlaHawker 24 Posted April 22, 2013 Yayyyyyy, we're wiping our asses with the Earth at a slower rate than predicted!! Wow. And here I just thought you were stupid Bengal/fantasy football fan. I was wrong. You're a complete and utter public school educated first rate moron. Hapy Earth Day!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldMaid 1,838 Posted April 22, 2013 1970. They said your rivers would run dry in 10-15 years, and were right about that. However they predicted no TP swipe would survive the dry trauma and were apparently wrong... So conflicting reporting... I guess I was confused by RP's assertion that they didn't have computers at the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DankNuggs 305 Posted April 22, 2013 I guess I was confused by RP's assertion that they didn't have computers at the time. They had computers like Gates playing pong in his garage....But RP believe was refering to weather models and sophisticated simulators, I don't believe these were highly developed in 1970. So you can both be right, and accuse the other side of jackazzery and buffoonery... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted April 22, 2013 They had computers like Gates playing pong in his garage....But RP believe was refering to weather models and sophisticated simulators, I don't believe these were highly developed in 1970. So you can both be right, and accuse the other side of jackazzery and buffoonery... I had a UNIVAC in 1970, but had to do a 20,000 sq ft addition to the house to store it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IGotWorms 3,317 Posted April 22, 2013 I had a UNIVAC in 1970, but had to do a 20,000 sq ft addition to the house to store it. Was it hard being a message board troll back before anyone else was online? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rholio 339 Posted April 22, 2013 Was it hard being a message board troll back before anyone else was online? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Recliner Pilot 61 Posted April 22, 2013 Was it hard being a message board troll back before anyone else was online? Owlgorezeera, the Messiah of the MMGW religion, didn't invent the innerwebs until much later, Lemming. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BudBro 117 Posted April 22, 2013 I just printed the Minnesota and Montana tax codes and put them in the recycle bin. lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUXBNME 1,340 Posted April 22, 2013 Here are some of the predictions made on the first Earth Day 1970. Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the predictions made today. The beat goes on, the beat goes on Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain link, please. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BudBro 117 Posted April 22, 2013 I've never really understood why the flat-earthers are OK with destroying god's creation. we, as humanity, have moved our worship from the creator to the creatures. men were called to have dominion over the animals and the planet. yet, the animals have become lords over man in the name of the almighty global warming dollar, none of which you will receive. you worship in vain as the prophets of your religion steal from and lie to you. happy earf day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDC 5,895 Posted April 23, 2013 Was it hard being a message board troll back before anyone else was online? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5-Points 2,734 Posted April 23, 2013 So I can say I'm as cool as the other side of the planet? When it's noon on one side, it's midnight on the other. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BunnysBastatrds 1,921 Posted April 23, 2013 I took a crapper on a palm tree looking for love in all the wrong branches. What do I have? Besides 99 Loft Ballons? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wiffleball 4,645 Posted April 23, 2013 Recently watched South Park's episode on the Rain Forest. At the end, they listed all the bad things that they RF brings to earth. Thousands of deaths each year, 7,000 items that cause cancer, etc. Was focking hysterical. Everytime you think these guys are just libruhl anarchists, they prove that - they're just anarchists / truth tellers without any real agenda whatsoever - other than skewering people with the truth. Episode Cracked me the fock up. Sure hope I get to see the Book of Mormon before I die. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUXBNME 1,340 Posted April 23, 2013 I took a crapper on a palm tree looking for love in all the wrong branches. What do I have? Besides 99 Loft Ballons? Luft Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
