By Julian L. Simon
April 22 marks the 25th anniversary of Earth Day. Now as then its message is spiritually
uplifting. But all reasonable persons
who look at the statistical evidence now available must agree that Earth Day's
scientific premises are entirely wrong. During the first great Earth Week in
1970 there was panic. The public's outlook for the planet was unrelievedly
gloomy. The doomsaying environmentalists
- of whom the dominant figure was Paul Ehrlich - raised the alarm: The oceans and the Great Lakes were dying;
impending great famines would be seen on television starting in 1975; the death
rate would quickly increase due to pollution; and rising prices of increasingly-scarce
raw materials would lead to a reversal in the past centuries' progress in the
standard of living…..To Read More…..
My Take - Julian Lincoln Simon died in 1965 and most remembered for what is know as
the “Simon–Ehrlich wager, a bet he made with ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich. Ehrlich bet that the
prices for five metals would increase over a decade, while Simon took the
opposite stance. Simon won the bet, as the prices for the metals sharply
declined during that decade.” He
discusses this bet in this commentary and the unwillingness of others of
Ehrlich’s ilk who keep drumming environmental doom caused by mankind. Nothing has changed. Warmists continue to make claims that even
the public knows is horsepucky and use personal ridicule and appeals to authority
instead of debating the facts, including “facts” they use that don’t exist!
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