From the first "EARTH DAY" 1970: Predictions from the "EXPERTS"???

[WatchManUSA]

I ran across this article and suppose many of you heard about it yesterday.  The article provides several doomsday predictions made on the first earth day in 1970.  I think it sheds light on present day Chicken Littles (can anyone say Al Gore?).

Full article: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-day-predictions-of-1970-the-reason-you-should-not-believe-earth-day-predictions-of-2009

Excerpts...

“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

“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

(Who knew that nitrogen is a problem?  I thought it was CO2. - WatchMan)  “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 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

“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.”   (Thank God we have global warming now otherwise we would all be frozen! - WatchMan)
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

[1Buckshot]

Looks like this guy had Watt pegged just about right.

World Affairs Monthly - [Cached Version]
Published on: 2/1/2007    Last Visited: 10/11/2007   
Kenneth E.F. Watt, a now retired biologist at the University of California at Davis, would from time to time try to explain his ideas to me over the phone.He would tell me that publishers were refusing to publish his writing.I would listen politely to him, and I did this for a reason: he did have very intriguing ideas, though more often than not he failed to express these ideas properly and with professional acumen.He did not seem to understand why the publishers were refusing to speak to him and work with him - his work was deficient, almost pathetically and hilariously deficient.I listened to him because he did survey with breathtaking speed many events around the world.His intake is impressive; it is just that his output is also quite deficient.He sent me a paper, written by hand, several years ago, which I have published below.

We might have the impression there is something wrong in Watt's brain.We do not know; there are just too many imponderables and mysteries.He lacks the skill required "to get his ideas out."He lacks the skill of a journalist in the new era.

[tombogan03884]

Looks like this guy had Watt pegged just about right.

World Affairs Monthly - [Cached Version]
Published on: 2/1/2007    Last Visited: 10/11/2007   
Kenneth E.F. Watt, a now retired biologist at the University of California at Davis, would from time to time try to explain his ideas to me over the phone.He would tell me that publishers were refusing to publish his writing.I would listen politely to him, and I did this for a reason: he did have very intriguing ideas, though more often than not he failed to express these ideas properly and with professional acumen.He did not seem to understand why the publishers were refusing to speak to him and work with him - his work was deficient, almost pathetically and hilariously deficient.I listened to him because he did survey with breathtaking speed many events around the world.His intake is impressive; it is just that his output is also quite deficient.He sent me a paper, written by hand, several years ago, which I have published below.

We might have the impression there is something wrong in Watt's brain.We do not know; there are just too many imponderables and mysteries.He lacks the skill required "to get his ideas out."He lacks the skill of a journalist in the new era.

I think that is a really fancy way to say he is a babbling a$$hole.   

[Solus]

I think that is a really fancy way to say he is a babbling a$$hole.   

Tact, Tom...

[tombogan03884]

Tact, Tom...

What ? ? ? 
I smiled when I posted it . 

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[tt11758]

Tact, Tom...

That IS Tom being tactful.   

[ericire12]

That was a good laugh