Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been
The year of the first Earth Day, biologist George Wald predicted that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years." That was 1970.
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By Walter Williams Published on April 26, 2017
Walter Williams
Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom.
Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions.
In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
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