Fifty Years Of Failed Apocalyptic Forecasts-- February 20, 2019
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”– H. L. Mencken
Academics have been forecasting doom for my entire life.
Needless to say, it hasn’t happened, as we are still here.
A few days after we landed on the moon 50 years ago, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich forecast that we would disappear in a cloud of blue steam within 20 years.
Ehrich is John Holdren’s close associate, and Holdren was Obama’s science advisor.
Ehrich is John Holdren’s close associate, and Holdren was Obama’s science advisor.
A year later, he predicted that we would run out of food and water within a decade.
He wanted to poison Africans in order to save them from overpopulation.
A few years later the “immensely likeable” Ehrlich jumped on the global cooling bandwagon..."
Much, much more.
Read it all and trust not the Fools of Forecasting!
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