11-24-2009, 11:53 PM
hehe Al Gore is making bank swindling the millions of gullible morons.
In the 70s they had the overpopulation hysteria & Global Cooling believe it or not.
Henry Kissinger was an enthusiastic proponent of famines & the like to reduce population growth in developing countries as part of US foreign policy.
You can check back in Paul Ehrlich's books what he says about India back then.
"Paradoxically, 1968 also saw the genesis of an environmentalist dogma that was pessimistic about humanityâs capacity to feed itself. In that yearâwhen the global population growth rate peaked, at 2 percent per yearâPaul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, intoning, âThe battle to feed all of humanity is over. ⦠Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs.â The madding crowd of âstinking hotâ Delhi was odious to Ehrlich: âMy wife and daughter and I ⦠entered a crowded slum area. ⦠People, people, people, people. ⦠[We] were, frankly, frightened.â It was a âfantasy,â he said, that India would ever feed itself. Yet Borlaugâs program delivered such stunning results that India issued a 1968 stamp commemorating the âwheat revolution,â and by 1974 it was self-sufficient in all cereals.
http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080106/no...-revolutionary/ "
In the 70s they had the overpopulation hysteria & Global Cooling believe it or not.
Henry Kissinger was an enthusiastic proponent of famines & the like to reduce population growth in developing countries as part of US foreign policy.
You can check back in Paul Ehrlich's books what he says about India back then.
"Paradoxically, 1968 also saw the genesis of an environmentalist dogma that was pessimistic about humanityâs capacity to feed itself. In that yearâwhen the global population growth rate peaked, at 2 percent per yearâPaul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, intoning, âThe battle to feed all of humanity is over. ⦠Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs.â The madding crowd of âstinking hotâ Delhi was odious to Ehrlich: âMy wife and daughter and I ⦠entered a crowded slum area. ⦠People, people, people, people. ⦠[We] were, frankly, frightened.â It was a âfantasy,â he said, that India would ever feed itself. Yet Borlaugâs program delivered such stunning results that India issued a 1968 stamp commemorating the âwheat revolution,â and by 1974 it was self-sufficient in all cereals.
http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080106/no...-revolutionary/ "