The self-righteous, smug "Coexist" bumper sticker crowd has now expanded to lawn sins beyond political candidates. Although, around the northeast US, there are still plenty of "Hillary" lawn signs that pollute the grass in front of houses filled with "Election Deniers."
One of the latest crop include the "Science is Real" catchall sign that also includes "Black Lives, Women, Humans not Illegal, etc." or the overtly self-righteous "Hate has no Home Here" signs to help promote 'sanctuary cities.'
Now this is all naive, feel-good, egotism, but it reflects a superficial stupidity that can be dangerous to us all when it translates to legislation and regulation.
Just to point out the "Science" hoax that was yesterday's "Earth Day" demonstrations and speeches, there were again more dire, earth ending predictions, if we don't mend our selfish ways.
Here are some of the laughable past dire "Earth Day" predictions compiled by the AEI. m/r:
... Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the “green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald
estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless
immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis
which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a
suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University
biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal
Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the
New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and
conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the
race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and
completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,”
Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle.
“The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per
year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to
die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been
born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe!
“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the
present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of
unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the
ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of
the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist
scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring
readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65
million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass
starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in
the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness. ...
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