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  Global Warming/Cooling, Overpopulation, Eugenics..

  Global Cooling fear may not have been widespread, but Overpopulation fear was. Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich wrote the NYT bestseller 'The Population Bomb' in 1969. Some quotes:

  "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate."

  "A minimum of ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century."

  "A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually he dies -- often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance of survival."

  Dr. Paul Ehrlich is alive and well today, preaching in climate change hysteria. He still hates capitalism, America, and people in general. Climate change has given him a perfect new platform.

  http://tinyurl.com/2wae7j

  The impact of that hysteria was very real. In 1979 China imposed the 'One-Child' policy. This was an enormous curtailment of the most basic human rights, yet it was (and still is) generally applauded by overpopulation hysteria enthusiasts in the West - including many scientists. In practice the policy was enforced almost exclusively on non-Han peasants - a sort of preemptive ethnic cleansing.  

  One more point - the portion of society now most excited by climate hysteria was busy doing other things pre-1990 to be worried about the latest scientific catastrophe theory. Many trustifarians, celebrities, grasping bureaucrats, anti-capitalists, et cetera were ranting, marching, screeching in favor of bringing the blessings of communism to the world at large. By the fall of the Berlin Wall it became clear that their ideas had lead to the deaths of 100s of millions, and their dream of government control over everyone's lives was not such a good one. Along came climate change, and they changed some of their signs but kept the same core message.On 'They predicted global cooling in the 70s'--But that didn't even remotely resemble today's consensus posted 2 years, 7 months ago 29 Responses