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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| The doomsayers and the disasters that never arrive |
| 2014-05-27 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] The creepiest warning comes from an old if not very honored prophet, Dr. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University ...contributed $595,716 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? , a biologist who is fond of making predictions that never come true but never tarnish his reputation. He's still an honored professor at an honored university, he still gets his books published and he still gets respectful treatment by the grunions in the media. The professor's hobby horse -- more a pony than a horse -- is the notion that we're breeding ourselves to an early end on the great spaceship Earth. Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine calls him the "irrepressible doomster" who has never been right. On the first Earth Day in 1970, he warned that "in 10 years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct and large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." He said in 1971 that by the year 2000 Britannia would be but a small group of impoverished islands inhabited by hungry people. "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I predict that tomorrow will be yesterday on Thursday, that is if you are here to see it. Ta-daah ! |
| Posted by: Clereling Angort1074 2014-05-27 09:16 |
| #2 In more earlier times, stoning was the prescription for 'false prophets'. There is merit in that. Just go back and read what pols said how much Medicare would cost by this time when they enacted it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-05-27 07:55 |
| #1 "When you predict the future," he says, "you get things wrong." Yogi Berra said it better, as he always did, explaining why the Yankees had lost a crucial game: "We made too many wrong mistakes." But just as Yogi is a better philosopher than the professor.... (Here's a couple more, Yogi Berra said it better, "golden gems".) "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." — Yogi Berra “The future ain’t what it use to be.” — Yogi Berra |
| Posted by: junkiron 2014-05-27 03:47 |