WayBack Machine

Let's travel back in the Time Machine, and note a few hysterical predictions of Leftist EnviroNazis of the past. Brought to you in this particular configuration by Jackson Pearson:

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“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

“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

“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

“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

[In New York City, by 2008] The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change. There will be more police cars. Why? Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up... Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying “Water by request only.”
-James Hansen testimony before Congress in June 1988

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I don't understand why they think we will take them seriously. Ever.

/gun