On Apr 24, 3:18*pm, "Don White" wrote:
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Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

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Take your famine data to parts of Africa and ask them how they're doing.

They were already in famine back then. Besides, the quotes were like
this:

"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

“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

That's not just "parts" of Africa, and that's a Stanford biologist,
not some CNN hack. He's exactly the kind of person that some here
herald as having all the answers, and he (they) simply don't.


Don't forget... a number of adjustments have been instigated that have given
us more time...more efficient vehicles... all the pollution controls, the
dismantling of the heavy industrial base in North America, on and on.
More will be required in the future as the population swells.

There is no doubt that we've come a long way, and there have been
advances made on many fronts.

The article is merely pointing out that the hysterics spouted by
experts have historically been just that: Hysterics.

It's just one bit a data among many, but it doesn't make sense to
ignore it or try to shout it down. It's data.