Earth Day

[Gad]

Each year, when Earth Day comes around, I always take at least 15 seconds to wonder, “ what ever happened to Kenneth Watt, Ecologist and Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University", are they working for BoM these days?

Earth Day 22 April 1970

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.â€

• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“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.â€

• 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.’â€

• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“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.â€

• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.â€

• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“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.â€

• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“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….â€

• Life Magazine, January 1970....

I won`t switch my lights off tonight, the energy saving light bulbs I use are saving me from the Ice Age.

[Binder]

I though they already had "turn on all your lights" day? Not to long ago?