Brian Reminds Us Of Earth Day 1970 (Updated)

I was pondering what to post today and ... Lookee here, Brian Shaver just got drafted into being a NoCo Surrounds Them blogger!:

First, some fun predictions from the very first “Earth Day” in 1970: Just Google it.

• “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” -- Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
  
• Imminent global famine
  
• Possible extinction (of mankind)
  
• 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….”
  
• My favorite! “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “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

Hoo Haw! Remind me again why we let these nutjobs have any power at all over us? What is wrong with this picture?

AND AN UPDATE FROM RUDY: Today is Earth Day, a holiday created to honor the planet and to raise the consciousness of man’s effect on the environment. Philadelphia has a very strong tie to this day. One of its native sons, Ira Einhorn, was a co-founder of the environmentalist jubilee.

But Mr. Einhorn has another line on his resume. In addition to being a environmental guru, he is the Unicorn Killer.

While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Einhorn dated a Bryn Mawr College graduate by the name of Holly Maddux. When the affair ended in 1977, Mr. Einhorn went into a jealous rage and murdered her. Whole story here..