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[Wayne]

Predictions from Earth Day 1970
The following predictions were made during the first Earth Day:
Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for the first Earth Day,
wrote, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation."


Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, stated,
"Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute,
believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80
percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."


Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University,
stated, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation...
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."


Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, predicted
that between 1980 and 1989, 4 billion people, including
65 million Americans, would starve to death.


Life Magazine wrote, "... by 1985 air pollution will have
reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half."


Ecologist Kenneth Watt stated, "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."



Watt also stated, "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."
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Wayne