The Daily Caller News Foundation took a look at predictions made by environmentalists around the original Earth Day in 1970 to see how they’ve held up.
1: (1970) “Civilization Will End Within 15 or 30 Years.” ………..
2: (1970) “100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving to Death During the Next Ten Years.” ………..
3: (1970) “Population Will Inevitably and Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases in Food Supplies We Make.” ………..
4: (1970) “Demographers Agree Almost Unanimously … Thirty Years From Now, the Entire World … Will Be in Famine.” ………..
5: (1970) “In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have to Wear Gas Masks to Survive Air Pollution.” ……..
6: (1970) “Childbearing [Will Be] A Punishable Crime Against Society, Unless the Parents Hold a Government License.” ………..
7: (1970) “By the Year 2000 … There Won’t Be Any More Crude Oil.” ………..
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