"The Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically... drastic decline in food production... most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters... fundamental changes in the world's weather... economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope..."[NEWSEEK ARTICLE FROM APRIL 28, 1975, HERE.]
Oh, sorry... I was just reading an article from Newsweek - from 1975. Entitled "The Cooling World," it warned of the dire consequences of "Global Cooling" - unless political action was brought about immediately.
The environmentalists have been predicting the IMMINENT end of the world for 30 years - originally due to global cooling, now due to global warming. That's a 180 DEGREE turn - in just 30 years - a bigger move than ANY predicted by ANY model of global climate change! Heh!
In the intervening 30 years: (1) there's more energy and more gasoline in the world - and it's cheaper now than it was then; (2) there are more than a billion more people and more of them are eating well and have a higher standard of living - and are living longer - now than then; (3) most commodities are cheaper now than then - (meaning that there is NO SCARCITY); (4) and more people are living in Anglo-American style democracies and economies, WITH MORE TRADE AND MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION.
In fact, the spread of the very things Leftist and environmentalists VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED - industry, capitalism, free trade, liberty and democracy - ARE THE VERY REASONS MORE PEOPLE ARE LIVING BETTER THAN EVER!
ENVIRONMENTALISTS: wrong then, and they are wrong now. Ditto Leftism.
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