Denial wears many faces.

[LouisvilleDem]

23. That's perfectly understandable

It has to be very hard to defend statements like these:

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. (Population Bomb 1968)

India couldn't possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980 (Population Bomb 1968)

By 1973 smog disasters will kill up to 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. (Population Bomb 1968)

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people. (speech made in 1969)

By 1980 the United States will see its life expectancy drop to 42 because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population will drop to 22.6 million. (speech made in 1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. (speech on the first Earth Day, 1970)

By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people ... If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. (1971 speech)


Obviously the man is a genius