Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009.

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009.

April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find it.

Luckily, we haven’t run out of oil, but have exhausted our supply of 70s fashion.

Luckily, we haven’t run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply of 70s fashion.

For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza.

Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be.

Need proof? Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“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.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: 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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.

Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“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. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“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.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“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.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.

Source: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-day-predictions-of-1970-the-reason-you-should-not-believe-earth-day-predictions-of-2009

Pharmaceutical Sickos (Interview with Abraxas)

How did the marijuana gateway myth get started?

First, there is no drug that will magically give you a craving for other drugs you have never had. That is a belief in witchcraft, not science.

Hemp was George Washington’s primary crop, and a secondary crop for Thomas Jefferson, so hemp has been around in America for a long time, without apparently causing much destruction in society. Each sailing ship carried several tons of hemp in its rope and sails, so cultivation of hemp was a major industry. Even though cannabis was widely grown, there were no allegations that it led to harder drugs.

In 1910, they believed that the certain steppingstone to opiate addiction was “eating Mexicanized food”. The fundamental idea comes from America’s puritanical history. It is the idea that pleasure is sinful, and small pleasures lead to cravings for larger pleasures. In this example, those who crave spicy food will inevitably crave larger pleasures, such as opium.

The Truth about Marijuana?

Hey kids, stop and think for a minute. The above video is the U.S. Government’s official thinking about marijuana. Even if you haven’t tried cannabis, you know what a silly piece of crap that video is. So my question is this: If the government is telling insane lies like that to you, what else do you think they are lying about? … Are they telling you the truth about anything?

Source: http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2008/11/hillarious-attempt-to-demonize.html

New drug growing in popularity

Note Pathway Family Center (formerly Straight Inc.), an abusive teen rehab is responsible for this mess. Go figure…  Of course I think Salvia is a marvelous plant for many reasons. It is a shame kids out there act a fool and post videos of themselves high on the substance, fucks it up for the rest of us who really see the herb for what it really is.

BY BOB KASARDA
bkasarda@nwitimes.com

Of all the recreational drugs 19-year-old Katelyn W. used before entering treatment, the only one that was strong enough to keep her from driving was a plant known as Salvia divinorum.

The drug would bring on intense hallucinations, she said, to the point where on one occasion, she was wearing a Minnie Mouse costume and believed she actually had become the animated character.

While you may not have heard of the drug, a simple online search reveals others have, including many young people, who have posted videos of themselves on YouTube high on Salvia.

There also are a number of sites online offering the drug for sale, which is not a problem for most, considering only 12 states — including Illinois — have passed laws against possessing and/or using the drug, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The drug remains legal in Indiana, according to Porter County Prosecutor Brian Gensel.

A bill was introduced downstate earlier this year that called for placing Salvia among the illegal ranks of marijuana, LSD and PCP, but it died before the House judiciary committee.

The heads of the drug units in Porter and Lake counties said they have not come across Salvia, but Zon Haralovich, commander of the Lake County Drug Task Force, said the Midwest is typically a few years behind on trends.

Salvia use is showing up among the young substance abusers being treated by Pathway Family Center, which has local offices in Chesterton, said senior therapist Victoria Winebarger.

She said about a quarter of the young people in treatment, including Katelyn W., of Ann Arbor, Mich., report having used Salvia along with other substances.

Katelyn W., whose last name has been abbreviated to protect her privacy, said she has seen others become physically ill and suffer other negative experiences while using Salvia.

“Even though it’s legal … it’s not a drug to be taken lightly,” she said.

She said she had no problem buying the drug at paraphernalia shops. It is sold in a variety of strengths and prices.

Winebarger said the drug causes paranoia and short-term memory loss.

In addition to being readily accessible, Salvia creates unique problems in that it is not targeted by drug screens. So those who are required to submit to drug tests, including people in treatment, can be using the drug without anyone knowing.

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