{"id":2494,"date":"2011-04-22T06:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2011-04-22T06:54:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T10:54:43","slug":"happy-lenins-birthday-a-k-a-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/environment\/happy-lenins-birthday-a-k-a-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Lenin’s birthday (a.k.a “Earth Day”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, it’s time for the annual<\/a> Lenin’s Birthday post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yup, \u201cEarth Day\u201d is on Lenin\u2019s Birthday. \u00a0Not a\u00a0coincidence, given that the \u201cfounder\u201d of Earth Day was much more a \u201cWatermelon\u201d than an actual environmentalist.<\/p>\n

Watermelon: Thin layer of green of the outside, red to the core.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The celebrations start with a round up of predictions from the very first “Earth Day”<\/a> back in 1970.<\/p>\n

\u201cCivilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.\u201d \u2014 George Wald, Harvard Biologist<\/p>\n

\u201cPopulation will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.\u201d \u2014 Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist<\/p>\n

\u201cBy\u2026[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.\u201d \u2014 Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is already too late to avoid mass starvation,\u201d \u2014 Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day<\/p>\n

\u201cDemographers 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. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions\u2026.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.\u201d \u2014 Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University<\/p>\n

\u201cScientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support\u2026the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution\u2026by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half\u2026.\u201d \u2014 Life Magazine, January 1970<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it\u2019s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.\u201d \u2014 Kenneth Watt, Ecologist<\/p>\n

\u201cAir pollution\u2026is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.\u201d \u2014 Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist<\/p>\n

Ok, Ehrlich was sorta right on this, if you restrict his predictions to modern Communist China, where they are showing the typical communist\/socialist contempt for the environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBy the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate\u2026that there won\u2019t be any more crude oil. You\u2019ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill \u2018er up, buddy,\u2019 and he\u2019ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn\u2019t any.\u2019\u201d \u2014 Kenneth Watt, Ecologist<\/p>\n

Now we get to my personal favorite, although probably not\u00a0Al Gore<\/a>\u2018s\u2026
\n\u201cThe world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,\u201d he declared. \u201cIf present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.\u201d \u2014 Kenneth Watt, Ecologist<\/strong><\/p>\n

It wouldn’t be Lenin’s Birthday with out this clip of the late George Carlin discussing “Saving the Planet.”<\/p>\n

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Yup, it’s time for the annual Lenin’s Birthday post. Yup, \u201cEarth Day\u201d is on Lenin\u2019s Birthday. \u00a0Not a\u00a0coincidence, given that the \u201cfounder\u201d of Earth Day was much more a \u201cWatermelon\u201d than an actual environmentalist. Watermelon: Thin layer of green of the outside, red to the core. The celebrations start with a round up of predictions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,8,19,33],"tags":[227,289,301,352,484,536,628,689,717,822],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-environment","category-politics","category-video","tag-communist","tag-earth-day","tag-environment","tag-george-carlin","tag-lenins-birthday","tag-moonbat","tag-predictions","tag-saving-the-planet","tag-socialist","tag-watermelon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Ee","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}