Flashback: 1970 -- Earth Day -- 40+ Years Ago --

From I Hate The Media! If We Didn't Laugh, We'd Cry, the following is from 1970, 40+ years ago:

"We have about five more years at the outside to do something." -- Ecologist

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."  -- Harvard biologist

"We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation."  (Love that grammar.) -- Washington University biologist

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." -- Chief organizer for Earth Day

"Demographers agree almost unanimously .... by 1975 widespread famine 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." Professor, North Texas State University.

"In 25 years (1995), somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all species of living animals will be extinct." Senator Gaylord Nelson. I believe Gaylord is extinct. Gaylord was the principal founder of Earth Day, and the modern hair transplant industry.

"By the year 2000...we will be using up crude oil at such a rate ... that there won't be any more crude oil."

Three letters: LOL.
Do You Know Where You Are Going To? Diana Ross

And despite all the actions taken, the temperature rose a half degree or so, but dire predictions above did not occur.