Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

All of these ridiculous statements were made on April 22 1970, the first Earth Day.

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University clown:
“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.”
“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.”
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”

Ehrlich is the simpleton whose prediction of server food shortages got him into a bet with economist Julian Simon. Ehrlich had to pick five commodities he thought would increase in value because of his “shortages” and lost. He relied on advice from John Holdren now Obama’s Science Czar who was just as dumb then as he is today.

Life Magazine, January 1970:
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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….”

Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University:
“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.”

More nonsense

Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“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.”

• George Wald, Harvard Biologist: an original anti Viet Nam War “activist.”“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

Martin Litton, Sierra Club director:
“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”

Kenneth Watt, Ecologist:
“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.’” AND,
“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.”

Former Sen. Gaylord Nelson:
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

Most of these fakes are either dead or too old to remember they told these lies. Just two years after printing its lies Life Magazine was out of business. Is it any wonder?

These people were liars then and their heirs like Al Gore and Barbara Boxer are liars today.

What did you do to defend American freedoms yesterday; what will you do today?

Yesterday’s Rasmussen Presidential Index had Obama at -12

Sources:

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/story/1627708.html

http://reason.com/archives/2000/05/01/earth-day-then-and-now

This day in history January 7

1927: The first transatlantic telephone call is made from New York City to London.

Comments on this or any other Collins Report essay can be sent to kcoachc “at” gmail.com