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Earth Day Predictions from 1970


Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make

100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years

Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence

urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half

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

by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India

by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa

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