It was recently Earth Day (22nd April). Not to be confused with the pointless ‘Earth Hour’ when mad people from madland around the world voluntarily sit around in the dark for an hour with no electrical appliances operating, Earth Day started in 1970 because we needed to have a day when we considered the end of the world and how we were all to blame.
Ah, sorry, yes, that’s what Earth Hour is for as well, I remember now.
Almost every day is a ‘Somethingorother day’, and it was important in 1970 to get in on the act of squatting on a random day each year and making that day about a pet peeve. Yep, the environmental (with the accent on the ‘mental’) religion was alive in 1970, and was in the middle of mutating from an irrational belief in the total destruction of the planet via a global nuclear war.
When, disappointingly for these mad people from madland, we didn’t blow ourselves and the planet we inhabit into space debris using bombs, they had to look for something else to worry about. They turned to industrial emissions and started to construct a fear based around our species destroying the world by just existing and producing waste or using resources. Nice one. This satisfied their need to believe we were all doomed and to blame just by existing. Over the years this fear has refined itself into the Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption fear that is preached today.
In order to keep followers in check and in a state of compliance, any religion preaches two main future events; Judgement and Eternal Damnation. These are the basics of the old Middle Eastern religions that just about still reign today. Likewise these are the basics of the Enviro-religion.
The difference between the predicted future fears that never arrive from Christianity and Islam, and the fears that the mad people from madland spout is that the latter skirts on science and provability. The Middle Eastern religions predict stuff that happens after death so nobody is able to say, “Hang on a sec, that never happened!”
This is the amusing flaw in the Enviro-religion. It is based on pseudo-science and a lack of understanding of the bigger picture, and as time moves on the disasters predicted just don’t happen.
I mentioned Earth Day being thrust upon us for the first time in 1970. Well, it arrived with a flourish of scary predictions from people who, albeit being mainly Americans, definitely knew all was going to end. I’ve dug out a few for your entertainment. I’ll leave it to you to work out how many of these doom and gloom scenarios actually came true, and then to consider how many of the more recent Global Warming disaster predictions actually came true. And how many of those yet to mature to their ‘disaster by’ dates will come true from the every increasing list being spewed forth by the mad people from madland.
I’d be very interested to know which ones you fell for….
Whooosh! Let’s flash back in time on the blog of the nation to 1970:
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist, 1970
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist, 1970
“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, 1970
“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, 1970
“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, 1970
“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, 1970
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day, 1970
“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, 1970
“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
“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, 1970
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist, 1970
“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, 1970
“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, 1970
“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, 1970
“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, 1970
England's England 
Many years ago a politician ( when we had proper politicians with credibility ) was asked about a possible downturn in the British economy.
The man replied ' We are a nation sitting above massive amounts of coal and surrounded by oceans full of fish, why should there be a downturn ? '.
Now we have given our fishing grounds away. Each year someone highlights the mad policy foisted on us from Europe that only certain types of fish can be brought ashore for sale. Of course a net cannot really decide which fish to trap, so the ' wrong ' sort are thrown back, only, they are dead.
This is a bit off topic I know, but it sort of highlights the lunatic decisions that committees and bureacrats arrive at, by looking at a problem and doing anything other than what is required to fix the problem.
We do not dig coal in any significant way, since it was decided long ago that the Coal Unions had to be defeated and the whole industry was destroyed in the crossfire.
It is our coal, why don't we start digging it up again and feeding it in to new and efficient coal power stations. Imagine the job creation in mining, construction, and transportation.
Coal works whether the wind is blowing or not. It still works when the sun goes in. An accident will not poison the area for a thousand years. We would not have to import it, so would not be dependent on any other country who we may fall out with or who may be in turmoil.
But, can you imagine the howls from the Global Warming ( sorry, Climate Change ) lobby.
Peter Moore.
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