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To: Brumar89 who wrote (17909)	2/28/2010 6:38:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86356

“65 million Americans” will die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to “22.6 million”. Paul Ehrlich, 1968 "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . [AND] hundreds of millions of people [including Americans] are going to starve to death." Paul Ehrlich (Holdren’s co-author and mentor) 1968 "Smog disasters" in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. Paul Ehrlich 1969 "I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Paul Ehrlich 1969 "Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion." Paul Ehrlich 1976 and "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." Environmentalist Nigel Calder at the first Earth Day celebration. "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed." Eco-scientist C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization, 1969 and “...civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970. “By 1995...somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970. “Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor...the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,” Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970. “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half...” Life magazine, January 1970. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970. "200,000 Americans will die from air pollution, and by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans will be 42 years." Paul Ehrlich, 1973 “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970. and The world will be “...eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age,” Eco-scientist Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970. "A billion people could die from global warming by 2020," John Holdren 1986, reiterated in Senate testimony, 2009. evolutionnews.org