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Earth Day At 52: None Of The Eco-Doomsday Predictions Have Come True

by Ronald Stein, guest post
April 22, 2022, 7:30 AM
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earth day protestFrom predicting ecological collapse and the end of civilization to warnings that the world is running out of oil, all environmental doomsday predictions of the first Earth Day in 1970 have turned out to be flat-out wrong.

More than three decades before Greta Thunberg was born — the Swedish environmental activist on climate change — more than 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. [bold, links added]

We now look back at quotes from Earth Day, Then and Now,” by Ronald Bailey of the spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions from Earth Day 1970.

Considering the current doomsday predictions scaremonger activists are verbalizing about global warming that will result in the demise of civilization within the next decade, many of those unscientific 1970 predictions are being reincarnated on today’s social and news media outlets.

Many of the same are being regurgitated today, but the best prediction from the first Earth Day five decades ago, yes 50 years ago, was that the “the pending ice age as the Earth had been cooling since 1950 and that the temperature would be 11 degrees cooler by the year 2000”.

The 1970s was a lousy decade. Embarrassing movies and dreadful music reflected the national doomsday mood following an unpopular war, endless political scandals, and a faltering economy.

The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 — okay, “celebrated” doesn’t capture the funereal tone of the event.

The events (organized in part by then hippie and now convicted murderer Ira Einhorn) predicted death, destruction, and disease unless we did exactly as progressives commanded data.

Behold the coming apocalypse as predicted on and around Earth Day 1970:

  1. “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” —Harvard biologist George Wald

  2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.” —Washington University biologist Barry Commoner

  3. “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

  4. “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.” —Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich

  5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [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

  6. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” —Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day

  1. “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.” —North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter

  2. “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

  3. “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.” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt

  4. “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” —Paul Ehrlich

  5. “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.’” —Ecologist Kenneth Watt

  6. “[One] theory assumes that the earth’s cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun’s heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” —Newsweek magazine

  7. “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

History seems to repeat itself as there will be a disproportionately influential group of doomsters predicting that the future–and the present–never looked so bleak.

I guess we’ll need to critique today’s doomsday predictions in the year 2050 and see if they were any better than those from the first Earth Day 50 years ago.

This piece first appeared on CFACT.org.

See also: A Short History Of Climate Alarmism (PDF)

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Comments 5

  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    Knownothing wackos like Micheal Oppenheimer has claimed that everyone who Eats is under Threat of Climate Change and he received $100:000 from the Heinz Foundation and refuses to debate about it

  2. David Lewis says:
    3 years ago

    The article pointed out predictions that didn’t come true. Let’s consider somethings that have come true. The price of energy has increased to very high levels due to government action on climate change. The economies of Europe and the US have been harmed by such action. The rate of inflation has been made worse by inflated energy costs. The economy of China has been helped by industries fleeing there to avoid the high cost of energy. Hundreds of millions of people without power are going to remain without it because western entities are blocking building coal power plants.

  3. Steve Bunten says:
    3 years ago

    I noticed one name popped up most frequently in the list of dire predictions and unfortunately he is still be quoted. That would be Paul Ehrlich. Why is anyone listening to him? Or any other prognosticator who has consistently been wrong.

  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    In other news the Exintion Rebellion blocked a truck carrying Vegetable Oil for recycling

  5. Don Cross says:
    3 years ago

    Maybe someone should phone these experts and remind them of their predictions. If they haven’t had their lunch yet, they could EAT THEIR WORDS!
    Did I miss the last 50 years and how bad everything has become ?

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