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To: Brumar89 who wrote (12817)	3/18/2012 2:41:47 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

Your probably right. Other doomsayers don't seem to mind, or even take notice of the fact that their predictions where so horribly wrong. "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate..." - Paul Ehrlich "The Population Bomb" was published in 1968 A year later he said "By 1980 the United States would see its life expectancy drop to 42 because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population would drop to 22.6 million." and Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich’s predictions about England were gloomier: “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Much later, after his predictions had been proven wrong again and again he said something along the lines of "my mistake was that I didn't go far enough" (in his predictions).