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All of the above happened in 1970, the era of the first Earth Day. Chief prophet of gloom was Stanford University's Paul Ehrlich, who wrote "Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make" and “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." (Quotations herein are from "Earth Day, Then and Now” by Ronald Bailey in May 2000.) Scientists were divided on “climate change” - were we on the verge of a new ice age or of oven Earth? The only certainty was that whatever happens ain’t gonna be good. History has proved that predictions had one thing in common: they were dead wrong.
Our Mansfield, OH newspaper,The News Journal, Nov. 18, 2007 p. 3A informs us that the latest UN report on climate change predicts “enough carbon dioxide already has built up that it imperils islands, coastlines, and a fifth to two-thirds of the world’s species.”
But that UN report isn’t scary enough. Some terrified but inventive editor's office writer has preceded that article with the headline “U.N.: Climate Change Could Cause Human Extinction.”
Actually, the U.N. article makes no suggestion of that. Déjà vu?