Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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2009-06-27 08:13:45

In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore’s hero and mentor, predicted, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000″. Sound Familiar?

The following predictions were made at the first earth day celebration:

1) 75 to 85% of all species of living animals will be extinct by the year 2000.

2) The world will be 11 degrees cooler by the year 2000.

3) It is to late to avoid mass starvation, and the average age of death will be 41 in the year 2000.

4) By 2000 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million.

And today, we have prominent politicians,news anchors, celebrities, billionaires, etc. making similar predictions, and any politician that is not a believer, is ridiculed by the MSM. We live in strange times.

BTW…Will someone in the media please check on the island that ’60 minutes’ reported many years ago would be under water by now, due to global warming?