Dire Predictions

This is why I find it hard to believe environmentalists. Everything they say is alarmist, and like the boy who cried wolf, even if they were right about something, nobody would believe them. When you see predictions like this, it's easy to laugh them off, but we're getting the same kind of predictions today:

At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."

And this is just one of many crazy predictions including that food shortages would be so bad that the US population will have dropped to 22.6 million by the year 2000 and England will have ceased to exist. Since the outlandish predictions have not stopped over the years, they've just morphed into different outlandish predictions, I'm honestly a little surprised that some of them get as much credibility as they do. I'm sure that in another 30-40 years, a similarly amusing article will be written talking about An Inconvenient Truth. And that movie is revered by the environmentalist community.

So I have to assume that either environmentalists are delusional if they actually believe their predictions, or they are pushing another agenda by preying on an uneducated public. The earth is far more resilient than environmentalists would have us believe, and if they really want to win over public opinion, they better start being more realistic. Give people a little more credit, they aren't all that gullible.