Greenie predictions from Earth Day 1970.

**carbonhed** · 23rd April 2011, 19:24

Still talking shit 40 years later.

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-d...ctions-of-2009

**awa355** · 23rd April 2011, 20:40

Originally Posted by carbonhed

Still talking shit 40 years later.

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-d...ctions-of-2009

Geez!! I'm glad I failed my education back then. All those proficies by the 'intelligent' ones of their time.

Also remember reading that paper would be almost non existant by 2000 due to the electronic advances.

I think that since printers came into vogue, more trees than ever have died.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 23rd April 2011, 20:42

I'm still waiting for the flying car promised to me by Popular Mechanics in 1965.

And the moon colony, and commercial space exploitation and mining.

and cold fusion.

and a sub 200kg, 200hp motorcycle that rides itself...

**\m/** · 23rd April 2011, 23:03

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

and a sub 200kg, 200hp motorcycle that rides itself...

The S1000RR is pretty close to that.

**Woodman** · 23rd April 2011, 23:26

I agree with this one.

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

**awa355** · 24th April 2011, 08:40

I saw an article on the news last night. We are all buggared, unless someone can start breeding Bees in a hurry. or protecting their food sources.

Amazing, how much insects are needed to clean up our mess and pollenate new life.

**carbonhed** · 24th April 2011, 17:58

It get's weirder.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42711922...ience-science/

**Geeen** · 24th April 2011, 19:26

Damn hippies.

**Woodman** · 24th April 2011, 19:54

Originally Posted by awa355

I saw an article on the news last night. We are all buggared, unless someone can start breeding Bees in a hurry. or protecting their food sources.

Amazing, how much insects are needed to clean up our mess and pollenate new life.

yeah and how much attention will this get from the powers that be. Sweet fuck all I reckon. Too busy having oil wars.

Can't run the limo on fucken bees man, oil is what we need.

**Mully** · 24th April 2011, 20:53

Originally Posted by Woodman

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

Agreed - whether or not you believe in the GReenhouse effect (and man's contribution to it) and peak oil and whatnot, surely living in a less polluted place is nicer...

**puddytat** · 24th April 2011, 21:00

We can get by without Bees as there are many other species like Flies, Moths ,Wasps ,Bumble Bees etc that do a heck of alot of Pollinating.....its just that we cant domesticate them like the Honey Bee & so are unable to do the bulk pollinating of our industrialised food crops.Im presently going thru the initial invasion stage of Varroa with my hives,& are reliant at this stage on a pesticide to save them....

So I think that the Bee drama playing out is really just the Tip of the iceberg & its only because of its huge immportance to "US" that its making the news & I really think we should also be very concernd about the huge ammounts of pesticide used worldwide.It kills ALL insects.
I live where we see blizzards of bugs still on an evening breeze,& my Veranda is festooned & bedraggled by webs galore....I wonder how anyone in thier right mind can contemplate coating the inside of thier homes with insecticide that will kill everything that comes into contact with it....

Im sure its safe eh , as the USA Food & Drug Agency says everything is....
We are reaping what we sow.

Get real.......Go Green.

**Woodman** · 24th April 2011, 21:03

Originally Posted by Mully

Agreed - whether or not you believe in the GReenhouse effect (and man's contribution to it) and peak oil and whatnot, surely living in a less polluted place is nicer...

The thing that gets me s that in 1970 someone recognised it and then 40 years later some dumb fuck mocks it as bollocks on an internet site, not to mention put on here in the same vain(vane, vein)

**Winston001** · 24th April 2011, 22:13

Yeah its fun to look back and sneer at sincere but overstated predictions from 40 years ago. Nevertheless if you read through carefully, quite a lot of those opinions are coming true today. Not as quickly as thought in 1970, but percipient none the less.

The reasons the starvation and pollution were fended off is the huge boost in seed and spray technology during the 1970s. Plus the Western nations tackled pollution and cleaned up our act...but overlooked Third World industry which is now biting us all.

**mashman** · 24th April 2011, 23:00

Originally Posted by carbonhed

Still talking shit 40 years later.

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-d...ctions-of-2009

aye and we're still no further forwards... especially when idiots dismiss it as easily as:

Originally Posted by the link

"Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live."

what planet is this guy on

... it's ok just now, what's the hurry

**mashman** · 24th April 2011, 23:06

Originally Posted by Winston001

The reasons the starvation and pollution were fended off is the huge boost in seed and spray technology during the 1970s. Plus the Western nations tackled pollution and cleaned up our act...but overlooked Third World industry which is now biting us all.

... the western polluters moved their factories to the east and then started pointing the finger didn't they? see, we've tackled pollution