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.” “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.
Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” “By… some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.” Don’t these sound like the predictions today that fail, like the 50 million climate refugees by 2010 followed by the moving of the goalposts to 2020? Via iHateTheMedia, here are a few of the predictions made on the first Earth Day.
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