Posted: May 07, 2008
1:00 am Eastern  Worldnetdaily

Walter E. Williams

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Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let’s look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.

At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.” C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, “The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.” In 1968, professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore’s hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and “in the 1970s … hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich’s predictions about England were gloomier: “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”

In 1972, a report was written for the Club of Rome warning the world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992. Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book “The Doomsday Book,” said Americans were using 50 percent of the world’s resources and “by 2000 they [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them.” In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, “The world as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000.”

Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, “… civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” That was the same year Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, in Look magazine, that by 1995 “… somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
It’s not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced there was “little or no chance” of oil being discovered in California, and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior said American oil supplies would last only another 13 years. In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas. The fact of the matter, according to the American Gas Association, is there’s a 1,000 to 2,500 year supply.

Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?

Here are a few facts: Over 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is the result of water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth’s average temperature would be zero degrees Fahrenheit. Most climate change is a result of the orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the sun’s output. On top of that, natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined.

http://globalrealityshow.podbean.com/2008/01/16/the-global-reality-1-16-08/

Particularly good explanations especially at the end.

There seems to be a common perception that criticism and complaining is what is going to make the world a better place.  I am sure I am one of the culprits at times.

Jason Vale’s catchphrase “If you don’t look after your body you’ll have nowhere to live” provoked a complaint that “its not even a very good or helpful quote, merely stating the obvious which therefore assumes the reader is a unaware of the mortality of the body.”

My response is:

‘well i had just being looking at Jason Vale’s site and feeling very appreciative of what he is about - it’s so easy for us all to get into critical mode and i love it when i have moments of pure feelings of appreciation for somone and that fault finding left brain that we all have goes into abeyance. It’s so easy with successful/famous people to get into that’ he’s not this, he’s not that’ mode (so we don’t find ourselves so wanting) rather than appreciating what they are giving.

Yes i know it states the obvious but sometimes we need reminding of the obvious. A lot of people in the health field are saying the same old things again and again AND MAYBE IT NEEDS SAYING and them saying it is more helpful than other people putting them down for saying it.  I think a lot of people don’t appreciate how much hard work these people put in and rather than appreciating it resort to knocking them down hoping it will make them feel better which of course it never does. If anyone wants to do it a different way then they can just get on with it.’

Over the last rwo days, God know what is in the air but have been attacked for no apparent reason on several fronts.  I live, as a far as i am aware,  a relatively harmless and hardworking life, i can only speculate as to what has brought it on.  And by a couple of people i have gone out of my way to be supportive of.  I feel I need to be  a bit more vigilant in a way.  I’m a bit bored of all the controversies and can’t see why we can’t just get on with having as healthy happy lives as possible and stop putting down other people.  And if people want to live unhappy unhealthy lives they can get on with it too without being criticised.  But they can’t expect other people to create a happy healthy lives for them even though it’s human nature to help if they sense their help is being useful.  It’s one thing to see the bad things in the world - and another to go on reacting and recreating the same old things, in the same old circles.  We could go like this forever - the question is when will be bored with it. 

I am working hard on a book at the moment and I think I will have to restrain myself on blogging to keep my energy for that.  And that way maybe I can keep out of some of the controversy.  For God’s sake I’m just a mum trying to do the best for my children and make the place i live (my home, garden and planet Earth) as nice as possible.  Perhaps I will keep it to mainly photos for  while.  Can you argue with a photo?????

This is what I told someone today:

“I am not interested in being ’confronted’ about the way I am or live my life. Equally i have no interest in ‘confronting’ other people about the way they choose to live their lives. As far as I can tell we are all (including me…) mostly unconscious anyway and i don’t see any point in semi-conscious people going around picking at the bits of unconsciousness they semiconsciously perceive in others. It’s semi-sighted people poking eachother through fog and there is more chance of damage being done than anything helpful in being achieved. I will only go as far as i absolutely have to to defend myself, my children, others who i feel connected to in this way, the place i live etc.

Many people who have had energetic/consciousness shifts can often see that they are but small glimpses of what we could be as humans.  I am interested in a general raising of energy and awareness and spreading information that is generally useful - as many many people are.  I don’t expect anyone including myself to be be fully conscious - or at ultimate health potential for that matter now.   We are so far from it, including me,  even if my levels of health and energy are far better than the average, largely through taking the advice of people who have been there before me.  My aim is to add information to the general pool - I am not claiming to be some kind of leader or example to follow - just to share information and ideas that may help - even if it helps someone to know that it’s not for them!!!! “

 Great quote from Jason Vale:

“If you don’t look after your body you’ll have nowhere to live”

We are going to be selling some very special fresh frozen bee pollen very soon.

‘hada thought abt education this morning - its like traditional education is like potty training. but human evolution is not at age 2 now wer entering age 3, & its completely inappropriate 2 b potty training now. we evolved that part of our consciousness & now its time 2 evolve a new part. unfortunately, the children no this but most of the parents havnt realised hence all th problems in the education system.’

As you can probably tell Kate herself had a very good education….lol

If you don’t know Kate personally, she always writes like this - it’s a time saver - i am still  a bit stuck in grammar and spelling myself - but punctuation is gradually dwindling to copious use of hyphens - and i really can’t always be bothered to press the shift key just to talk about myself (i) - can this one just slide now? even in books?…

Actually one of the points Kate and i share in common is that we both come from very educationally focussed backgrounds and both did very well academically at school.  This has served us well for working in the world as it currently exists  but in our adulthoods we have been refinding our right brains and happiness.  We are both very focussed on our children getting the stimulation and information and opportunities they need, but in a much more relaxed and holistic way than we feel schools can offer in this next stage of human evolution.

” look back, but dont stare “

                              - George Green

thanks Erez! 

Even God seems to be looking for himself these days…

This is from Wikipedia - i just like it:

Novelty theory has a few basic tenets:

That the universe is a living system with a teleological attractor at the end of time that drives the increase and conservation of complexity in material forms.
That novelty and complexity increase over time, despite repeated set-backs.
That the human brain represents the pinnacle of complex organization in the known universe to date.
That fluctuations in novelty over time are self-similar at different scales. Thus the rise and fall of the Roman Empire might be resonant with the life of a family within a single generation, or with an individual’s day at work.
That as the complexity and sophistication of human thought and culture increase, universal novelty approaches a Koch curve of infinite exponential growth.
That in the time immediately prior to, and during this omega point of infinite novelty, anything and everything conceivable to the human imagination will occur simultaneously.
That the date of this historical endpoint is December 21, 2012, the end of the long count of the Mayan calendar. (Although many interpretations of the “end” of the Mayan calendar exist, partly due to abbreviations made by the Maya when referring to the date, McKenna used the solstice date in 2012, a common interpretation of the calendar among New Age writers, although this date corresponds to such an abbreviation rather than the full date. See Mayan calendar for more information on this controversy.) Originally McKenna had chosen the end of the calendar by looking for a very novel event in recent history, and using this as the beginning of the final 67.29 year cycle; the event he chose was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which gave an end-date in mid-November of 2012, but when he discovered the proximity of this date to the end of the current 13-baktun cycle of the Maya calendar, he adjusted the end date to match this point in the calendar.[1][2]
This End of History was to be the final manifestation of The Eschaton, which McKenna characterized as a sort of strange attractor towards which the evolution of the universe developed.

His predictions for this transcendent event were wide ranging and varied, depending on his audience, and different times he conjectured the following: the mass of humanity would, by means of some technology, become mentally conjoined in a great collective; the moment in which time travel became a reality; the birth of self-conscious artificial intelligence; a global UFO visitation; and occasionally he even expressed doubt whether anything at all would happen. However, McKenna claimed that there was no contradiction between these scenarios, as they might all happen simultaneously.

Very interesting information about Sergey Smelyakov’s work linking also with the work of Terence Mckenna and Geoff Stray

http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/ATS.html